Hi whitdan,

First of all, the architecture of having a CGI script make system calls is something to be very, very careful with, as it can easily allow attackers access to your system. The very least you need to do is protect access to the server / the script with some kind of authentication mechanism. Even then, you need to be very careful with any input you get and might want to pass along to the system command.

Having said that, you're clearing the PATH environment variable and then attempting to call perl without the full pathname. Try calling it as /usr/bin/perl (or wherever your perl binary is installed).

Another thing to remember is that the user the web server and CGI script is being run as often doesn't have permissions to anything, e.g. the nobody user.

Hope this helps,
-- Hauke D