that is because you are calling a script using cgi from the command prompt.
that's really a question for a perl/cgi group.
cgi's are intended to be run from the web.
i think you can just press Ctrl+D (or Ctrl+Z - can't remember which) when you get that
prompt to continue.
- Original Mess
try connect with a minimal script, like this (I didn't try it) :
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use CGI;
use DBI;
my $dbh;
print "something before connect";
$dbh = DBI->connect("DBI:mysql:$database", "$username", "$password") or die
"Couldn't connect to database: " . $dbh->errstr;
print "somet
