An interesting thought. I have been doing exactly the same and did not run into problems with Apache not refreshing my scripts.

Mind you, I was not using some local module but doing the changes to the CGI scripts themselves. I always thought (hoped?) that Apache would notice that the scipt was newer than the version held in memory and would do the "right thing".

CountZero

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