Try Devel::Trace you can get it from CPAN or you add print statements (that write to a log file) to your script. Your problem sound more like a user lp does not have permission to do something (e.g., access a file or run a command) or it could be a path or environment problem, since lp does not has no user environment. You might have you script print some of the environment variables to a log file. Since I have no idea what your script is doing I'm only guessing.
Hope this helps, Craig > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:perl-unix- > [EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 12:44 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Perl-unix-users] debugging option > > Is there a more detailed debugging option to use on perl besides -w? I am > currently using #!/bin/perl -w but it does not catch the error I am > running > into. Something equivalent to the -x option shell scripts use, would be > really useful. The script is used for printing to an IBM printer. It > determines the report type, size and then it prints to the printer. The > script itself does not seem to contain any errors, because it works fine > if > I run it as user root, but the problem is when I run it as user lp, and is > something I have no control of, since the third party software my company > uses (vista plus,) requires lp to run it. When the script is run by user > lp, it finishes right away, giving no error messages, but report is not > printed, and if I do echo $?, it shows exit status 30. As a matter of fact > the script seems to work fine only by user root, no other ID's, which > leads > me to believe it is a permissions issue, but where? I have nothing to work > with. If I can look at what the script is doing step by step and determine > at what point if any it gets stuck, then I may get somewhere. > > > _______________________________________________ > Perl-Unix-Users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
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