What are .PL files ?

[ChrisTech]

What are .pl files?

Ive seen a bunch of them this morning while running top on cp08, most of them are doing 2-4 cpu like this one neomail.pl

Is that a script that is allowed or not? (only reason I ask, is because as usual in the morning on cp08 I have trouble loading my forums page times out, so I ssh in and look @ top)

So now Im askin.

[Jonathan]

.PL is Perl files; basicly same thing as .CGI files.

[Daniel]

client denied by server configuration: /home/foo/public_html/cgi-bin/guestbook.pl

Are .pl scripts allowed? I've set permissions to 755 and still no go

[Jonathan]

Did you upload in ASCII mode?
And basicly Perl is same as CGI.

If CGI is enabled, Perl should workd.

[Daniel]

Did you upload in ASCII mode?
And basicly Perl is same as CGI.

Yup--even SSHed to it too and checked. It looks fine to me though

Still dunno whats up with it. It's Matt's Guestbook script. Variables are correct, I am sure of it.

[Daniel]

I think I figured it out...apparently it does not like being called .pl even though it lies within cgi-bin. Rename to .cgi and it seems to work fine

[KyleC]

What are .pl files?

Ive seen a bunch of them this morning while running top on cp08, most of them are doing 2-4 cpu like this one neomail.pl

Is that a script that is allowed or not? (only reason I ask, is because as usual in the morning on cp08 I have trouble loading my forums page times out, so I ssh in and look @ top)

So now Im askin.

yes neomail is allowed, it is a webmail client that is a part of cPanel


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