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in thread invocation of a ghost file

It wasn't invoked from the command line. If it was, it wouldn't be in your web server's logs.

The web server attempted to invoke the script, surely via CGI (which is why @ARGV is empty).

Indirectly, a web client attempted to invoke the script.

Even more indirectly, and assuming the referrer is accurate, a web browser was redirected there by http://test-server/cgi_app.pl, or a user followed a link outputed by http://test-server/cgi_app.pl.

That's all that can be known from the information given. Knowing what's the last thing that IP address requested might help you.

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Re^4: invocation of a ghost file
by arkturuz (Curate) on Feb 15, 2006 at 17:26 UTC
    A user followed link generated by cgi_app.pl which allways generates HTML links to itself.

    This app worked for months without such errors, and after I added some source code (in a new module), this error started to appear. And it only appears when this new source code is executed although it doesn't really differentiate from the old code (the whole thing is SELECTing and UPDATEing a database).

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