I'm a relatively new to Linux, so I'm in over my head here. I'm having a problem with a shebang line and multiple versions of Perl.

One of our scripts runs fine from the command line but wouldn't run through the browser. We'd type

    perl somescript.cgi

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and everthing would run fine.

However, when we tried

    ./somescript.cgi

[download]

we would get a "No such file or directory" error. The shebang line was #!/usr/bin/perl and sure enough, there is a /usr/bin/perl out there.

After copying a shebang from another script, we discovered that it would run perfectly by enabling warnings (wtf???). Shebang:

   #!/usr/bin/perl -wT

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Take out the -w and the script won't run. /usr/bin/perl has perl 5.6.0. We discovered that we also have a /usr/local/bin/perl which is version 5.6.1 (which could be a red herring). I'm trying to figure out if there is some version conflict going on here, though I don't see how.

Anyone run across a problem like this before? We're running RedHat Linux version 7.0. Perl 5.6.1 was installed after the RedHat install.

Cheers,
Ovid

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In reply to Turning *off* warnings causes the script to fail :( by Ovid

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