Hi, I'm very new to perl and am trying to use it to do some nifty stuff. I have a script that telnets to a given port on a machine, gets a number and then processes it into an array. After going through a host of machines it returns the whole thing with HTML. This works when run in command line but no values are shown if run from browser. I'm baffled, no errors in the logs to help me and diagnostics and -w don't help at all.. If anyone could take a look at this and tell me if there is some beginners error here I should slap myself for. 
#!/usr/bin/perl

BEGIN {
        $|=1;
        print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
        use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
}

$kjarnavelar = "9";
$i = "0";
$rbports = "0";
$oraports = "0";

@host = ("x00802","x00803","x00804","x00902","x00903","x00904","xb0011
+2","xb00113","xb00114");

foreach $host (@host) {
        $rbport = `/usr/bin/telnet $host 1367 |egrep -v "Trying|Connec
+|Escape"`;
        $rbarray[$i] = "$rbport";
        $oracle = `/usr/bin/telnet $host 1371 |egrep -v "Trying|Connec
+|Escape"`;
        $oraarray[$i] = "$oracle";
        $oraports = $oraports+$oracle;
        $rbports = $rbports+$rbport;
        $i++;
}
print "<HTML>";
print "<TABLE BORDER=1>";
print "<TR><TD><B>Host</TD><TD><B>RB Ports Active</TD><TD><B>Oracle Po
+rts Active</TD></TR>";
for($start=0;$start<=$kjarnavelar;$start++)
  {
        print "<TR><TD>$host[$start]</TD><TD>$rbarray[$start]</TD><TD>
+$oraarray[$start]</TD></TR>";
  }
print "</TABLE>";
print "<TABLE BORDER=1>";
print "<TR><TD><B>Samtals RB Port</TD><TD><B>Samtals Oracle Port</TD><
+/TR>";
print "<TR><TD>$rbports</TD><TD>$oraports</TD></TR>";
print "</TABLE>";
print "</HTML>";

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