Are you running mod_perl? If so, use Apache::PerlRun for the crappy scripts from Matt's Archive. Are you running some other speedycgi-like implementation that runs a longer term interpreter? Quit using it.

You might appreciate http://nms-cgi.sf.net/, which aims at rewriting the scripts with added sanity. The NMS versions are more likely to work and less likely to contain huge gaping security holes.

- Yes, I reinvent wheels.
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