Hey,
having spent mere loads of hours in apaches error logs this sounds really like a good idea! (though fortunately I haven't had to write CGIs for a good while now :)

Just two little remarks:

• #!/usr/perl/bin -d:ptkdb This probably should be #!/usr/bin/perl -d:ptkdb in your first call.
• Does ptkdb come with perl? Which version? Or do we need to get from CPAN? I can't find it on my system: perl 5.6.0 running on SuSE Linux 7.1 out of the box

Regards...	Stefan
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