On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 11:26 AM, Niels Larsen <niels@[...].dk>  wrote:
>  I can put
>  the command line to run in backticks and do print `@command`, and
>  that too works, but would like to use system, Proc::SafeExec, etc.

To fork and capture output without backticks, you have to do something
with pipes, like the IPC::Open* modules do.  This isn't
mod_perl-specific and I think you can find some good examples in the
perl documentation.  Maybe perlopentut would be a good starting place?

- Perrin