The code now looks like this

#!/usr/local/bin/perl -wT

$|=1;

$name = 'myusername';
$uid = getpwnam($name);
print "$uid: $uid;
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but I'm still getting the 500 msg in the browser, and the web logs say "Premature end of script headers: /home/myusername/cgi-bin/getvars1.pl

I think I had better check the forums at the hosts to see if anything has changed since last I used Perl, however I did just run FormMail.pl from the same path, it has a 744 and it worked just fine ??

Thanks,

Peter