exec a perl script

Hi, I am another person having trouble with the exec command. It has worked for me in the past, but not with the perl script I'm trying to exec today. Here is my code: $command ="/home/kyelateas/cgi-bin/test.pl"; exec($command, $return, $status); if ($return) { $return = implode("\n", $return); print "<pre>Data = $return\n\nStatus = $status</pre>"; } else echo "No data returned"; I have two perl scripts. One of them simply prints "hello world" 4 times with a newline after each time. This works fine and the php page prints out the "hello world" statement 4 times. The problem is that I have another perl script which is a test script for an interface to an ecommerce server. It returns several lines of info describing the transaction. It works perfectly from the command line, but I can't get php to return any data when I use the above exec code on it. It's strange to me because from the shell they are pretty much the same. Type the path and name of the file to execute it and it returns a few lines of output. Why would this be any different for php? I know the script that connects with the ecommerce server takes a bit longer. Could that be the problem? Thanks in advance. Sean