nothing is reported back to the script.

This is a bit vague. Can you show a bit more of the context in which the backticks are used? What is the value of $? immediately after the backticks expression is run?

You don't say what your web server is. Some record output to STDERR in their error logs, others discard it. If you are using one of the ones that saves it, you can see what the output of your script was by checking your error logs.

When I am running a CGI script on a web server that doesn't do what I want with STDERR I redirect it myself, to a file that I can review to find out what happened.

In reply to Re: CGI and Backticks by Anonymous Monk
in thread CGI and Backticks by agronbach

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