To find the path of the program date, type which date. Do this for any program that you need your cgi-bin script to access.
I see lots of perls, which one should I use?
They should all be the same. /usr/local/bin/perl should work nicely. The version of PERL installed on our servers is 5.003 mail path is /bin/mail sendmail path is /usr/sbin/sendmail |