If I understand your question, you have issues.

If you want to share data betweeen Apache child processes, you should use the tie() aspect of IPC::Shareable module.

If you don't want shared information between child processes:

For Pete's Sake, USE 'MY'!!!!

Use 'my', use 'strict', use warnings, don't write mod_perl without them!!!

J. J. Horner
Linux, Perl, Apache, Stronghold, Unix
jhorner@knoxlug.org http://www.knoxlug.org/