Oh Benevolent Monks,

I'm having a problem with my CGI scripts on a Linux box I never use. When I get an error in a Perl CGI script, it prints the error to STDOUT instead of STDERR. Thus, when I run a script that has a trivial error (Use of uninitialized value in concatenation ...), it is printed as the first line, thus generating a Premature End of Script Headers error in the Apache error_log.

Now, I know I can put a BEGIN {} block in to flush the STDOUT handle, or use CGI::Carp to the same effect, but on my own box, as well as most development boxes I've used, the CGI errors (specifically, the perl errors) are flushed to STDERR, and thus handled by Apache. A friend of mine seems to think it's a Perl setting, and I couldn't find anything about it scouring the Apache lists. Any thoughts?

Environment: Mandrake 8.1, most packages installed by RPM, Perl 5.6.1 installed by CPAN.

Thanks ever so much,
Ismail

In reply to Perl CGI errors to apache/error_log by ismail

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