in reply to perl stdout and backtick execute
Just to clarify ... you are executing this program from the command-line, as a logged-on user, and not as “a CGI (web...) request ...? Even though you “just happened to” move it to ... cgi_bin? You’re not trying to run this script from a web-page, are you? You’re not trying to diagnose a problem where Apache/CGI won’t run this program, are you?
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