Is anyone on the list using "formmail" CGI script on their RH Apache implementations?

[Michael Schwendt]

On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 09:54:54 -0500, Sebastijan Petrovic wrote:

> I've been using FormMail (well known, I'm sure) CGI script on my Apache
> servers for 5-6 years and never had a problem.
> 
> I recently upgraded from RH9 to FC2 and FormMail no longer works.
> Rather, I keep getting 500 errors on the server.
> 
> I tested the script from command line and it's fine, the path to the
> script is good as well as the permissions.
> 
> When I review error_log for Apache it shows Premature end of script
> headers: FormMail.pl
> 
> I wonder if the issue is a version of the Perl, on FC2 it's version 5.9
> and on RH9 I run 5.8.

Premature end of script headers is a topic covered in quite a detail by
the Apache FAQ. Start trouble-shooting with the information provided
there, as there are several reasons why a script can fail with that
error.

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