Thanks for your quick response. I have information on the directory that this module will reside. The perl script is designed as a file watcher and the process files with the functions from the module. In the loop (for file watcher) i look to see if the common mount point exists and if it does then I call the modules function to process the file. so if I understand you correct, I could do 
## PERL SCRIPT ##

#!/usr/bin/perl;
use strict;

my $g_commonMount = "/common_mount";
my $g_moduleDir = "$g_commonMount/include";

sub fileWatcher
{
   while(1)
   {
      if ( -d $g_moduleDir )
      {
         use autouse 'foo' => qw/foo/;  #using your example
         unshift @INC, '$g_moduleDir';  #foo.pm is under $g_moduleDir
         foo;
      }

      sleep (10);

   }
}

#### MAIN ###
&fileWatcher;

__END__

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In reply to Re^2: use lib and use autouse 'module' by cvg2mco
in thread use lib and use autouse 'module' by cvg2mco

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