in reply to perl execution on Mandriva2006

Unless the directory where your Perl script resides is in your environment path variable, you have to supply the full path to the script. Which might be something like /home/ramgi/myscript.pl, or simply ./myscript.pl if you are already in that directory.

You also need to make sure that the script is executable. (chmod 0755 myscript.pl - if you want it to be executable by all)