Oh wisemen of Perldom

I have a script that uses backticks to run a program. It works
fine when I run the script from the command prompt, however,
when the script is run from a web server it fails.

I believe the reason is that the environment paths are not set for
the web server so my backticked program doesn't run right. But I do
have another script (setpaths)that will setup the enviroment paths.

I want to do this correctly and I don't really know how unix and shells
work. I want to call the 'setpaths' from my script, but I from what I hear
This will create a shell, set the paths, then close the shell and in the end
nothing got done.

Any suggestions???

Here's an example of my code
`/opt/bin/myprog test`;

if ($? != 0){      # if successful returns a 0
   print "<br>Error: $?<BR>\n";
   print "<br><Blink>ERROR!!!</blink><B>Program did not run correctly<
+/b><BR>";
}

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How can I stick another line in here that will run my setpaths script and
keep the paths for myprog ??

In reply to Environment Paths by otijim

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