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i am getting this error - No such file or directory: couldn't spawn child process: /cgi-bin/index.pl

Nov 5th, 2001 05:01
Neil Hamilton, sas kum,


1. Make sure that you have included a valid "shebang" line as the first 
line of your perl script:
eg.
#!/usr/bin/perl
2. Make sure that your perl script is saved in Unix format (lines 
terminated by \n rather than DOS format (lines terminated by \r\n)