Shell script as Cacti Tab

[akalaidjieva]

Hallo, I have a simple shell script (for sending an e-mail) and I need to create a Cacti tab (superlink) with it. The idea is to have a link in the Cacti tab and when you press the link, the shell script is executed. Can someone help me do that?

Thank you!

[Howie]

Hallo, I have a simple shell script (for sending an e-mail) and I need to create a Cacti tab (superlink) with it. The idea is to have a link in the Cacti tab and when you press the link, the shell script is executed. Can someone help me do that?

Thank you!

This is what CGI is. Google around for "CGI shell script", but the basic version would be:

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#!/bin/sh
echo "Content-type: text/html"
echo

# your script here - output goes to the browser

and configure your webserver to allow CGI scripts to execute from whereever that shellscript is.

I'd do it in php with the mail() function personally, but if you already have the script...

[akalaidjieva]

OK, I rewrote the script with the PHP mail() function and it works perfectly when executed from the console. But when I add it as a Cacti tab nothing happens- just a blank page and no e-mail.

Can anyone give me a hint what I am doing wrong?

[Howie]

OK, I rewrote the script with the PHP mail() function and it works perfectly when executed from the console. But when I add it as a Cacti tab nothing happens- just a blank page and no e-mail.

Can anyone give me a hint what I am doing wrong?

Care to post the script? Or some of it? Or the contents of the httpd error log?

[akalaidjieva]

<?php
$txt = "Test e-mail\nPlease ignore";


mail("akalaidzhieva@abv.bg","Test",$txt);
?>

As simple as that but I don't know what to do with it