Carl McNamee wrote:
>
> An update!
>
> Here is what we are currently thinking.  Apache will not allow the process
> to write to any directory above /APACHE/PUB/htdocs, and rightly so.
> However, it appears that the callci posix command needs to build a temporary
> file and it uses the users home group as part of the filename.
>
> We proved this by changing the home group for WWW.APACHE from PUB to TEMP.
> The error then show a redirection to filename.TEMP.APACHE.  Just for giggles
> we then changed the user for the job stream and the Apache user to
> MANAGER.SYS and the directory callci was redirecting to became
> filename.PUB.SYS.  Though all of these changes the script worked correctly
> from the command line but gave us the error below when run via Apache.
>
> Any thoughts on how to change this behavior?  Maybe I should also explain
> what we are trying to accomplish!  Hmmm...  That might make too much sense.
> But on with the exercise.  :)

Under certain circumstances, including batch jobs, callci will try to execute
your MPE CI command while using MPE CI I/O redirection (CIOR) to send any
command output to a temporary disk file.  Unfortunately callci doesn't realize
that certain CI commands like setvar cannot be used with CIOR.

Fortunately a simple workaround exists where you create a UDC or command file
called "mysetvar" which just calls setvar.  Then you can "callci mysetvar" just
fine.

Or since you're trying to do this from a Perl CGI, you can use Ken Hirsch's
MPE::CIvar module, which I recently listed on the jazz software downloads page
at http://jazz.external.hp.com/src/.
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