The previous posters have covered most of the bases. When you go to try and debug this, keep in mind these specific things to watch/look for:

• The background attribute for the td element should probably be something more like "/images/$background[$cnt]", unless you are certain that the pages using this script (it's clearly an SSI utility) will always be in the directory above that images directory.
• Check the actual path to the counter-file. Or use the File::CounterFile module. The cgi-bin directory might not be where you want this file getting opened.
• Check the UID/GID that the CGI application is running under. Running the script from the command-line as yourself isn't the same as having it run as a CGI under the UID of the web server's process.

--rjray

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