Thank you very much for the replies!! The mentions of "path" and the fact that the echo command worked led me first to place the Fortran executable in /usr/bin (the location of the echo command). This worked. Also I followed the suggestion of replacing "tolerance.test" in the list argument to the system command with the full path to tolerance.test. This also worked. Thank you again for your advice.

I now would like to request additional advice. I realize that I can use (for example) a simple perl command line program to replace 

@proglist = ("

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in all my cgi-bin *.pl files with 
@proglist = ("full pathname of cgi-bin directory/

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This is clearly a workaround.

However, if possible, I would still like to figure out how I can get Apache (or Perl?) to recognize that all of the executables in the system commands are located in my cgi-bin directory.

I'm now guessing that this is a Perl issue rather than an Apache issue? In both my Apache and Apache 2 httpd.conf files I give the (same for both Apache and Apache 2) full path to my cgi-bin directory in both the ScriptAlias and cgi Directory sections. I have read both configuration files and don't see where else I can give cgi path information. (But I am ignorant.)

Should I really be thinking about what path Perl uses to interpret a system command? Does anyone know how that is set under Solaris 10? (Of course this still does not explain why Perl is somehow getting the right path under the Apache setup, but not under the Apache 2 setup.)

In reply to Re: cgi/perl/fortran web program by sverrill
in thread cgi/perl/fortran web program by sverrill

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