Hi,

I've recently moved a website and one Perl script will not work. The previous site had a Unix box with Perl 5.006 , and the new site has a Linux box with Perl 5.006001

After inserting "print" statements all over the place, finally this piece of code is where the script is stopping:

system ("lockfile -2 -r 5 $base_dir/.lock" ) == 0 or diehtml("Lock
error: ", $? >> 8, "\n" ); # TODO stop stderr of system

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There is no msg appearing (what happened to the "diehtml" ?), the script just stops. I have checked all the path and file permissions, and they are exactly the same s the previous website. The variable $base_dir has a value of '/home/username/public_html/.orders'

The 'shebang' line, etc is:

#!/usr/bin/perl -wT

use CGI qw/:standard/;
use DBI;

# resource limits
$CGI:DISABLE_UPLOADS = 1;
$CGI::POST_MAX = 1024;

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Any clues as to why this is stopping ?

Thanks,

Peter

In reply to Perl script crashing at lockfile ? by peterr

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