Strangely, this solution doesn't seem to work. All the permissions are wide open and there is no error reported from the system call. I placed an else clause in runReports() to indicate success but there is no print out from that either.

sub runReports {
   print "Generating Reports for $script_to_call\n";
   my $exit_val = system($script_to_call);
   if   ( $exit_val ) {
      print "<p>System call failed with an exit value $exit_val\n";
      print "<p>Let's see what a backtic exec shows us\n";
      print '<pre>', `$script_to_call`, '</pre>';
  } else { 
      print "<p>Look for reports in /home/donfox/BioDataProject/kim/Re
+ports";
  }
}
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The program just runs but no reports are generated. The driver script for the reports works fro mthe command line, both in the cgi-bin and back in it's own directory. ??? Tanks