On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 12:37:13PM -0700, Kevin Buettner wrote:
/_On Aug 12, 12:54pm, Mike Starke wrote:
/_
/_> Couldn't I execute something like this on my ISP:
/_> 
/_> nc myhomePC:port_number < parameters
/_
/_This is fine so long as ``parameters'' is a file with some appropriate
/_data in it.
/_

Does not work.

If I have a perl script on my pc, running under inetd that looks like:

#! /usr/bin/perl
system ("touch /home/me/it_worked-$ARGV[0]");

And I just execute the script like this:
 ./perl_script.pl 1234567

 I get a file called "it_worked-1234567"

When I attempt to do this from my ISP with the following command:

nc myhomepc <port> < param

(where the file "param" has the data "1234567")
I get a file just called "it_worked-".

What am I missing?

v/r
-mike