Typing away merrily, Chad A. Adlawan produced the immortal words: > were trying oto debug this _big_ PERL web application (lots of forms, etc, > whatever) and it seems like were really lost w/ its code. > is there any way that you can do a line by line trace when a PERL code is > executed on the web that way, we'll have some idea w/c goes where ?
Do you control the programs installed on the server? If so, install a second copy of perl, one with debugging support enabled. Then go and read perlrun(1) for information on -D switches. Eg, #!/bin/perl_debug -Dtls -- HTML email - just say no --> Phil Pennock "We've got a patent on the conquering of a country through the use of force. We believe in world peace through extortionate license fees." -Bluemeat
