[H-GEN] Perl temp problem

[Tony Melia (DMS)]

Hi,
	I have a perl script which calls a system() command to do a trivial
task that creates an anonymous temp file.  This worked fine up until I did
an up2date today (yes, I know, some people say never to run it!).  An
example demonstrating problem is ;

#!/usr/bin/perl
System("lynx -source http://whatever <http://whatever>  | mail
me at myaddress").  

I now get an email (instead of the html content) saying /var/www/IKJTE:
permission denied

Obviously the IKJTE changes each run.  I tried defining temp/tmp/and
LYNX_TEMP_SPACE in the /etc/profile, but still same.  I can fix it by giving
the user apache write access to /var/www but I assume this is bad practice.


Any suggestions to force this to use /tmp as the tmp space??

I am guessing this failed because lynx was rebuilt or ./configure'd  without
the TMP info set.

Using RH8, perl + perlmod, with apache.

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