Dear Monks,

I am intermittently receiving these errors on my production web server (Apache):

[Fri Apr 30 15:17:31 2004] [error] Can't use global $^W in "my" at /usr/www/httpd/cgi-bin/script.cgi line 1, near "{$^W "

It happens about three times a day, and on many different scripts. All the scripts are running under mod_perl, and I have not used the $^W variable explicitly in any of them (in fact, I didn't know what it was until I got these errors).

Most of my scripts start something like this: 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

BEGIN {
    unshift(@INC, "./modules");
};

use strict;

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If it helps at all, some details of my system are:

Red Hat Linux 9.0
Perl 5.8.0
Apache/1.3.28 mod_gzip/1.3.26.1a
mod_ssl/2.8.15
OpenSSL/0.9.7a
mod_perl/1.28

mod_perl entry in httpd.conf: 
        SetHandler perl-script
        PerlHandler Apache::Registry
        PerlModule Apache::DBI 
        PerlSendHeader On
       PerlRequire /usr/www/httpd/cgi-bin/modperl/startup.pl
        Options +ExecCGI

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I hope you can help. Thanks in advance!

In reply to Error: Can't use global $^W in "my" by Likeless

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