Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / Advanced Techniques / May 2008

I'm trying to get a simple perl script to run via CFEXECUTE on a Unix box
running CFMX 7.02 and have not been successful. I have spent considerable time
searching and have not found a working solution.

I have full control of the box and it's in a development environment behind a
firewall. I've set permissions wide-open, moved the file, etc. and have not
been able to get the cfexecute to work. The output file is blank. The file
works on our CF5 instance (also unix).
Any help would be appreciated.

This is a simple perl script that simply inserts a record in an Oracle
database - and works fine from the command line as the user the runs CF on the
box. This is a basic test script I wrote to debug this issue.

Here is the command:
<CFEXECUTE name="/disk1/cnav0/bin/it_tools/test_script.pl"
outputfile="/tmp/test_script.txt"
timeout="30">
</CFEXECUTE>

I have tried:
<CFEXECUTE
name="/usr/local/bin/perl"
arguments="/disk1/cnav0/bin/it_tools/test_script.pl"
outputfile="/tmp/test_script.txt"
timeout="30">
</CFEXECUTE>