in reply to Re^3: calling external programs via cgi perl script
in thread calling external programs via cgi perl script
One other thing to add to the above. You appear to be using csh (you mentioned setenv previously). system and backticks use the Bourne shell, which does not have the source command (uses 'dot' instead) and the syntax for setting variables is different. You will have to explicitly call csh (or tcsh) to get your file to run.