My point wasn't so much the software package itself, as anonymonk pointed out, there are free open source versions.
My point was this: from what i gleaned from your post, it seems like it could very well be something that's already been done, tried and tested. So I'd probably put a little more emphasis on using an existing package and maybe hacking at the internals a little bit, if nothing else than for learning experience. Just my thoughts.
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No worries. It's a bit frustrating for me because I can see that I've completely mangled the asking of this question, and I feel badly that such a poorly asked question took up any of your time. I appreciate your kind assistance, though.
Believe it or not, I really was just asking if there was a way to execute a non-CGI perl script from a CGI, and jZed's reply has set me in the right direction. The whole control panel thing, and anything else that sounded like I was in need of some sort of package, was almost certainly due to my not knowing enough to be able to ask the question in a meaningful way. Sorry about that.
If there were a section on PM for "obfuscated questions" I'd no doubt be considered some kind of grand wizard!
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and if they are? There are others, like webmin, ispmanager ....
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"and if they are?"
Well, nothing -- other than I wasn't asking about managing a hosting account. : )
Seriously, though, I do appreciate your suggestion. It was my bad for being unclear.
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