in reply to Re^8: Weird error log message
in thread Weird error log message
The problem was that your edited is adding a BOM before the shebang line, so your web server didn't accurately detect the shebang line. "#!" must appear at the very top of the file and it wasn't. The following will remove the UTF-8 BOM from a file:
perl -i.bak -ple"s/^\xEF\xBB\xBF// if $.==1" script.cgi
Note that if your source is UTF-8, you should probably use use utf8;.
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