Re: very basic question

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On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 02:43:44PM -0600, Jain, Abhay K, ALABS wrote:
> I must apologize if it is not directly relevant to mod-perl.
> I have tried to search google and other places but no luck.
> As I had mentioned I have apache built with mod-perl 2.
> Some old cgi scripts were written in ksh and use of set -x
> produced complete output in browser window under Netscape.
> While Apache seem to ignore stderr. Is there any way
> I can get that output sent to the browser under Apache. Thanks.

If your question can be restated thusly:

How can I cause my ksh scripts to send stderr to stdout?

You can fake it thusly; add this early on in your script:

  exec 2>&1

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