Perl backtiks run as root

Andy Knipp

I have a CGI that runs:

$cmd="/usr/bin/touch /tmp/hi";
`$cmd`;


When the cgi runs normal it is fine, but the file is owned by nobody. However I want this run as root so I chmod u+s to the cgi, now it does not run at all (I remove /tmp/hi nothing comes back)

So it appears when the CGI is setuid, it will not do a system call.

There has got to be something stupid here going on.

Tips/Pointers/RTFMs appreciated

Andy