I have a CGI that writes to a text file. After writing to the text file, I want another CGI to run and index that text file along with all the others in the directory.

The writing and indexing work fine. The problem comes with what is returned to the client. This is what I have:

print<<EOF
text goes here
EOF
exec '/path/to/second/2.cgi' || $error($!);

print<<EOF
remaining text goes here
EOF
[download]

The 2.cgi should output plain text saying what it did between the text outputted by 1.cgi. But either i only get what 2.cgi outputs, or a 500 error.

The output from 2.cgi is:

print "Content-type: text/plain\n\n";
print "Done-Captured $number-files total\n";
[download]

2.CGI works fine on its own, and with the content-type header, displays from 1.cgi, though the text from 1.cgi will not.

Hope this is clear.

Any ideas how to get output from both 1.cgi and 2.cgi to show?

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