it's fixed now, and reads:

$DBH = DBI->connect( "dbi:mysql:rentsavers", "root", "", ) ;
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This is why you have to check return values or turn on RaiseError.

Agreed. Unless you're really diligent, turning on RaiseError is better. You can always wrap in an eval when you rally want somthing other than death.

I turn on RaiseError. ;-/

--Bob Niederman, http://bob-n.com

yes, agreed. i thought i was getting info from the startup.pl .. but that doesn't seem to be the case. maybe subject for different node ... but i've preloaded CGI::Carp ...

# Tell me more about warnings
use CGI::Carp qw( fatalsToBrowser warningsToBrowser );
$SIG{__WARN__} = \&Carp::cluck;
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but i'm not getting the fatalsToBrowser behaviour i'm supposed to ... normal 500 error messages, not Carp output

$DBH = DBI->connect( "dbi:mysql:localhost", "rentsavers", "root", "", 
+) ;
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