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you are a saint. thank you so much, that has solved countless problems from so many different applications. I am gland I have finally used dos2unix. Thanks again -----Original Message----- From: drieux [mailto:drieux@wetware.com] Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 3:42 PM To: Mat Harrison Subject: Fwd: GoryDetails on: error log message Begin forwarded message: > From: drieux <drieux@wetware.com> > Date: Thu Apr 25, 2002 05:06:17 US/Pacific > To: beginners@perl.org > Subject: GoryDetails on: error log message > Reply-To: beginners@perl.org > > > On Thursday, April 25, 2002, at 04:16 , drieux wrote: > >>> [Thu Apr 25 23:48:59 2002] [error] (2)No such file or directory: exec of >>> /web/cgi-bin/genestate/check_login.cgi failed >>> [Thu Apr 25 23:48:59 2002] [error] [client 192.168.0.1] Premature end of >>> script headers: /web/cgi-bin/genestate/check_login.cgi >>> >>> </log snippet> > > wow - just used unix2dos and I can generate the > similar error case on our linux box. > > > [Thu Apr 25 16:58:46 2002] [error] (2)No such file or directory: exec of > /drieux/CS/cgi/dumbDos.cgi failed > [Thu Apr 25 16:58:46 2002] [error] [client <IPADDR>] Premature end of > script headers: /drieux/CS/cgi/dumbDos.cgi > > this occurs because of the 'dos' two byte ending: > > 0000000 # ! / u s r / b i n / p e r l \r > 0000020 \n \r \n u s e C G I q w / : s > 0000040 t a n d a r d / ; \r \n \r \n $ u r > 0000060 l = " h t t p : / / w w w . > 0000100 p e r l . c o m / C P A N / " ; > 0000120 \r \n p r i n t " L o c a t i o > 0000140 n : $ u r l \ n \ n " ; \r \n e > 0000160 x i t ; \r \n > > the comedy here is that the killer is that your linux machine > is reading the 'shebang' there not as > > #!/usr/bin/perl > > but as > > #!/usr/bin/perl^M > > and there is no such file of that type. > > fix that one line and your code will work.... > > now of course had you put that line as > > #!/usr/bin/perl -w > > then the 'shebang' would have worked because > the formating would have been > > od -c dumbDos.cgi > 0000000 # ! / u s r / b i n / p e r l > 0000020 - w \r \n \r \n > > that would have moved the "^M" like gunge off of > > #!/usr/bin/perl > > and perl has no problem with sucking in > > -w\r\n > > as a command line argument > > since in the dark it will 'chomp' that stuff anyway ..... > > have we mentioned 'use -w' before???? > > Did we ever mention 'use strict;' before!!! > > There are Majikal and Mystical Reasons..... ciao drieux --- >