Ari B Kahn [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth:
*>I'm running a perl CGI script that needs to execute another external perl
*>script on the same machine. I would like to see the screen output of this
*>external script as well. What is a good way to do this?
*>
*>I was trying
*>system ("/Users/username/perl_dir/perl_script --flags other_arguments");
*>
*>It doesn't seem to work though.
make sure you have -w
add a 'use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);'
which will spew all the errors to the browser
Also, you might want to do
system ("/Users/username/perl_dir/perl_script --flags other_arguments") or
die "script failed: $?";
e.
