invoking perl script from a cgi script running in the browser

[tanzeem]

i have a perl cgi script named extracter.cgi which calls a perl script(remote.pl) that resides in the same directory(/var/www/cgi-bin).The program works when run in command line . But when extracter.cgi is run as a web program it does not invoke the remote.pl in the line: `perl -e ./remote.pl`.Do i have to set any permission for the browser. All the files in cgi-bin has been set to 777.
If any one knows plz tell me.
Thanks in advance.

[miller]

Greetings tanzeem,

First of all, when running a script from a web browser, watch out for assumptions concerning the "current working directory". The easiest fix for this is to simply include the full explicit path when refering to remote.pl.

Secondly, when executing a perl script from another perl script, simply use "do". There are reasons why you should do it this way, but to put it simply, it's cleaner.

- Miller