wanker has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I have an apache/mod_perl server running on RedHat Linux. Occaisionally I get the following error in the apache error_log: 
[Thu Jan 13 11:43:47 2000] [error] Can't use global $^W in "my" at /us
+r/local/apache/htdocs/auth/perl/edit_profile.pl line 1.

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It seems intermittent.

Has anybody experienced this before

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RE: $^W
by turnstep (Parson) on Mar 30, 2000 at 05:19 UTC

    This begs the question: what is line 1 of that file? Perl is complaining because $^W is reserved as the "is warnings enabled?" indicator.

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