[aseek-users] problems with wrapper script

[alex fenton]

Hi

I'm trying to write a wrapper script which calls s.cgi after tweaking 
the environment. The reason for this is that I want to call it in as an 
SSI, so the outer shell of the template comes from the site-wide 
templating system. So I've got something like:

#!/usr/bin/perl
...
print `/path/to/cgi-bin/s.cgi`;
s.cgi works fine if run alone. The wrapper script works fine from the 
command line, run by 'nobody', the user which Apache runs under, but 
returns no output when run via a browser. There's nothing useful in the 
system return codes and error codes to suggest why it failed. Also, 
although I've set 'LogLevel debug' in searchd.conf, nothing gets 
appended to dlog.log to suggest why the search failed.

I've tried this on two different machines now, and in two different 
languages (Ruby, Perl) - can anyone please suggest what might be going 
wrong, or how I can get more debugging info?

Thanks
alex