  RH -> Debian migration breaks CGI script under Apache  I've
recently upgraded our webserver from RH 7.3 to Debian "etch",
installed Apache2 and all seems fine, except one CGI script no
longer functions correctly even though as far as I can tell I've
reproduced the Apache configuration options on the new machine.
At the nub of it, the relevant section can be boiled down to the
following snippet of code, which involves setting a signal
handler for an alarm:     alarm (TIMEOUT);    system "<a system
call is executed>";    alarm (0);   # Did we timeout?  if ($@)
system "<perform some cleanup>";    print "Timed out";    print
"OK";  This worked fine as a CGI script on the old RH box, and
will work on the new Debian box from the command line but not
when run as a CGI script. In the latter case, the alarm never
fires and the process waits on the first system call to
complete.  Is there some subtle bit of Apache configuration that
I may be missing to make that pesky alarm call work? Or is there
something not qui