This is slightly off topic, but I'm hoping that the combined Perl debugging experience of the Monks can help me.

Every once ina while, I'll be writing a Perl script using CGI.pm, and when I go to run it, I'll get a 500-error. When the script is run from the console, I recieve no errors or warnings. However, if I run the program with the -w switch on the !# line, the program runs fine via CGI, and the output on the console is unchanged.

I cannot seem to figure out any pattern. Some scripts run fine without the -w, and some have to have it to run at all. All of these scripts are developed with use warnings and use strict, and it's happened to me on more than one server under more than one *NIX OS. It's driving me nuts.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

In reply to Unidentified debugging problem asked by adding -w by jpfarmer

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