Okay here's what I'm trying to do I have a set of CGI scripts that run a particular website, the boss wants to see stats on this website. My company uses an SSI based stat generating program that is absolutly ancient because rant: the brain-dead administrators think that a log-file based stats generator running at 3am is processor intensive. /rant

Apache::SSI is out because we aren't running mod_perl (see admins, brain-dead above) and I haven't tried the CGI::SSI module but I am shying away somewhat since it states that it doesn't handle all SSI and frankly since I'm using HTML::Template already, it seems using SSI intermixed would just be ugly and annoyingly like using two template systems.

What I want to do is just call the stats program from inside my own program. (BTW I can't just require it because its a C program)... I came up with the following code to put near the top of my scripts:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;

{
    local $ENV{REQUEST_METHOD} = "GET";
    local $ENV{QUERY_STRING} = "query_string_for_stats_prog";
    system("stats.cgi");
}

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Well here's my question, when I run this from the command-line (used a test script that printed out the %ENV hash) I get the expected results. But when I run it from the web I don't get anything, as though the system command completely fails.

Does anyone have an idea how I could solve this? It doesn't have to use system, anything would help right now! :)

Thanks in advance

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In reply to Do programs called with system() see the current %ENV? by cfreak

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