Hi, I am encountering a very peculiar problem with perl script using the following systems configuration: - Redhat Fedora Core 2 (Patched to the latest packages) - httpd (apache2) version 2.0.51 - Perl version 5.8.3 - kernel 2.6.10 Each time I surf to the perl script, one of the apache process will be replaced with a "/usr/sbin/-e" -------- [root@red1 perl]# ps -fe | grep apache apache 4821 4820 0 05:07 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd -k restart apache 4822 4820 0 05:07 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd -k restart apache 4823 4820 0 05:07 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd -k restart apache 4824 4820 0 05:07 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd -k restart apache 4825 4820 0 05:07 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/-e -k restart apache 4826 4820 0 05:07 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd -k restart apache 4827 4820 0 05:07 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd -k restart apache 4828 4820 0 05:07 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/-e -k restart -------- What I am executing is a simple perl script -------- #!/usr/bin/perl print "Content-Type: text/html \n\n"; print "<head><title>#continue#</title></head>"; print "<P>Halo, this is a halo world"; open OUT,">>out.tmp"; print OUT "Testing\n"; print OUT "\n\n"; close OUT; -------- I am able to see the sentence "Halo, this is a halo world" in the web browser. However, the file out.tmp did not appear, even though my directory permission was set to "777" and owner "apache". Irregardless, even if I just perform a simple print to the browser, the process list of apache will still be replaced by "/usr/sbin/-e" for each time I executed my perl script. The httpd logs do not yield anything interesting. In addition, my perl script runs fine in bash. Has anybody encounter such a problem before? -- Mike bugtraq77@xxxxxxxxxxx --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx