Here's where things stand, taking into account various people's suggestions:

I moved the module to /internal/charrison/. Every directory from root on down is 0777. Still same problems.

require '/internal/charrison/IPC.pm'; works! (However, it fails when IPC.pm issues 'use WDI;')

When clhtest (normally invoked by xinetd) is invoked from command line, it works fine, fork/exec'ing 'test'.

I think I am having some issues with the Perl 'exec' statement (whose documentation I frankly can't fathom). When I write 

$command = q{/usr/bin/perl};
@arglist = q{-I /internal/charrison /internal/charrison/test -l /inter
+nal/charrison -P /internal/charrison};
exec $command @arglist;

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It fails in the usual manner. But when I write 
exec "$command @arglist";

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it *does* load IPC.pm successfully -- but then it chokes when IPC.pm does 'use WDI.pm;', like above. At this point I wonder if there's something wrong with the command string I'm passing to exec. (I now realize there are several different ways of giving paramenters to exec(), but I don't understand them, so I should probably stick to the single-argument model.)

In reply to Re: perl unable to locate my module by ibm1620
in thread perl unable to locate my module by ibm1620

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