Having written the script on a windows box, if you uploaded it to a unix or linux server, there is probably a problem on the shebang line, if the dos-specific CRLF line termination was not converted to unix LF. If the first line of your script (as it exists on the server) contains: 
#!/usr/bin/perl\r\n

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it won't run on the server. Get rid of the CR (use text-mode file transfer to the server, or dos2unix on the server after the script is uploaded.) Another work-around is to add a useful flag or two: 
#!/usr/bin/perl -T -w

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When you do that, you not only get the benefits of taint checking and warnings enabled (which you ought to do anyway for a cgi script!!), but also unix will correctly parse out the path to perl as /usr/bin/perl (rather than /usr/bin/perl\r).

In reply to Re: dbh connections: stumped! by graff
in thread dbh connections: stumped! by kevin

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