This is a shot-in-the-dark, but it worked for me when I had to call a Perl script once.

Instead of

`perl /path/to/indexer.pl`;

try

`/usr/bin/perl /path/to/indexer.pl`;

where you specify the perl executable's path in your statement...

As I said before, it worked once for me; then again, I'm a total newbie and should be treated thusly. ;-)

-Dragonfly