Perl's "do" command -- reasons for not working?

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rogergraves

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I'm new at cPanel and am running it on Red Hat Enterprise 3 with Perl 5.8.4. I like to organize common subroutines that I use across more than one script into files that I import using perl's "do" command, e.g.:

do "common_subroutines.pm"; # (is in same directory)

For some reason it completely bombs out with a 500 error "premature end of script headers" which I interpret to mean that it isn't being allowed to read it. The subroutine file has chmod 666 and I've even tried 777 and to no avail. I've also tried doing an absolute path, i.e.

do "/home/username/public_html/cgi-bin/common_subroutines.pm";

Obviously I can roll these into the module library and do the "use" command but some of these I don't use for more than a few scripts so that seems like a lot of hassle, especially since I fiddle with them all the time. Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks,
~Roger
 
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That's odd. I use perl do all the time in our scripts and have no problems on cPanel servers. Are you ending your pm files with the following on its own as the last line of the module:

1;

If that's not the problem you can try the following:

1. From the shell prompt:

perl -c myscript.cgi

Will check your script syntax. Or, add the following to the top of the calling script (after the first shebang line) as it's a CGI script:

use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);

Which may give you more information in your browser when you get the 500 error.
 
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rogergraves

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Yeah, it doesn't make any sense. It runs fine on a bunch of other servers. Here's the code:

Code: 
#=== M A I N    P R O G R A M ===========================================
# Name: test.pl
use strict;
do "subroutines.pm";
{
	print "<HTML><BODY>Current time: " . getNow() . "</BODY></HTML>";
}
#=== M A I N    P R O G R A M    E N D =====================================


#=== S U B R O U T I N E S =============================================
# Name: subroutines.pm
sub getNow {
	my ($minute, $hour, $day, $month, $year) = (localtime)[1,2,3,4,5];
	my $timetype = 'a.m.';
	$timetype = 'p.m.' if $hour > 12;
	$hour = $hour - 12 if $hour > 12;
	$year += 1900;
	$month += 1;
	$day = '0' . $day if $day < 10;
	$month = '0' . $month if $month < 10;
	return "$hour:$minute $timetype $month/$day/$year";

}
1;
#=== S U B R O U T I N E S    E N D =======================================
I did try your suggestion of use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser); but didn't give any additional information. Also both files compile no problem on the server (perl -c test.pl & perl -c subroutines.pm both return "syntax OK").
 
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rogergraves

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Doh!

As soon as I posted the last reply I saw the problem. It wasn't the "do" command at all -- I had forgotten to put in the print "Content-type: text/html\n\n" since I wasn't using the CGI module. Thanks for the response chirpy and sorry for the false alarm. :rolleyes:
 
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