I am running solaris 8 and perl 5.005_02.
Running a simple example as root is successful:
root# perl -e 'print"Hello World\n";'
Hello World
root#

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But running the same example from another user fails:
cnow> perl -e 'print "hello world\n";'
Can't open perl script "-e": Permission denied
cnow>

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I have verified that my cnow user has execute permission for perl:
ls -al /usr/local/bin/perl 
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root     other     818096 Jan 24 2002 /usr/local/bin/pe
+rl*

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And that both root and cnow users are running the same perl executable.
I have also verified that I can run perl as the cnow user with a simple script:
cnow> cat testPerl.pl
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w

print "This is a test\n";
cnow> ./testPerl.pl
This is a test
cnow>

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I am at a loss as to why I am getting the permission denied error.
Please help, it is sucking the life out of me!!!

In reply to perl -e problem by dantheman1210

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