Re: Clearly lost my mind

[jdporter]

in reply to Clearly lost my mind

One possibility: Backticks only captures stdout; if either of those spawned programs print anything to stderr, it's going to be captured by the web server as output from your program. You might try redirecting stderr of the two spawned programs. I notice you don't do anything with the stdout that you catch in both cases. Perhaps it would be better to redirect stdout/stderr to log files instead?

[jerrygarciuh]

Thx jdporter,

I think I must be delirious. I added

use CGI::Carp qw( fatalsToBrowser );
use Fatal qw( warn );
use strict;
use warnings;

and suddenly it works. Dunno. Must.sleep.

Thx very much! jg

[ysth]

use Fatal qw( warn );

I believe that's a no op. What did you mean for it to do? (What it is doing is replacing calls to the builtin warn with calls to a subroutine that does the warn and throws an exception if the warn fails...but warn never fails. Even if outputting to STDERR fails, warn still returns true.)

Did you possibly mean to say use warnings FATAL => "all";?