Wise ones, Below is a portion of my code. The code runs fine when I am logged in as the user. When I am not logged in, the code stops at the point where it tries to connect to the database using the odbc connection. Is there a way to run this code while not logged in?

Your help is always received gratefully. Eli 
#!/usr/bin/perl
# ed.pl
use warnings;
use strict;
use DBI;

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "<html><head><title>Enviroment Dumper </title></head><body>";

my     ($CDS, $UPDATE, $id, $text, $sqlquery, $prodnum, $catid, 
    $catnum, $sqlquery1, $description, $count, $pccount, $sqlquery2,$s
+qlquery3, $cecount  );
my (@list, @count, @pccount, @cecount);


# DATABASE CONNECT***************************************
$CDS=DBI->connect('DBI:ODBC:claudonntCDS', 'xxxx') ||
    die "error opening database: $DBI::errstr\n";

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