signup.cgi problems (says 'not running as freeside user')

[imp at justneworleans.com]

I'm having a problem getting signup.cgi to run on my public webserver (as
opposed to the freeside backend server).  My browser reports a '500 internal
server error' when I try to access the file; the Apache error log shows the
following relevant information:

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[Tue Apr 13 19:31:38 2004] [error] [client 66.93.250.250] script not found or
unable to stat: /cgi-bin/setup.cgi
Use of uninitialized value in numeric ne (!=) at
/usr/local/libdata/perl5/site_perl/FS/SignupClient.pm line 26.
not running as freeside user
Compilation failed in require at /cgi-bin/signup.cgi line 31.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /cgi-bin/signup.cgi line 31.
[Tue Apr 13 19:32:06 2004] [error] [client 66.93.250.250] Premature end of
script headers: /cgi-bin/signup.cgi
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I'm using: OpenBSD 3.4 (patch branch), Perl rev 5.0 version 8 subversion 0,
Freeside 1.4.1 (stable, fresh off the download site), all the requisite perl
modules pulled off CPAN & showing no symptoms of malfunction.  

I've folowed the instructions at http://www.sisd.com/freeside/docs/signup.html
to a tee.  

The permissions for signup.cgi are as follows:

-r-sr-xr-x 1 freeside freeside  20702 Apr 11 14:29 signup.cgi

Apache runs as user 'www'.

When invoked from the command line as user 'freeside', it produces the
following
to stdout:

"my" variable $prefix masks earlier declaration in same scope at ./signup.cgi
line 490.
connect: Socket operation on non-socket at
/usr/local/libdata/perl5/site_perl/FS/SignupClient.pm line 109.


These two responses together are all the output I've managed to get out of the
script so far.  Needless to say I haven't got it to the point where I can see
how it interacts with my Freeside backend.

Is there something I'm missing, & if so, what could it be?

Thanks, everyone.

Regards,
Henry

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