that is a valid way to call a cgi script from the command line so we'd need to see "some_script.cgi" to be able to tell why it's not working.
On another note, are you calling this second cgi script with backticks? I've never seen this as a good idea - everytime it's either needed changed into a module, called with a form, or ran using a redirect. So if you could give your reason for using backticks maybe we could find a better solution.
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