Apache's got me stumped again...

[pll at lanminds.com]

Hi,

I've got a CGI (CGIa) that runs just fine regardless of what DocumentRoot is 
defined as.  I've got another CGI (CGIb) which seems to only work with 
DocumentRoot set to /var/www.

Both CGIs are perl.  Everything is set owner/group of www.

The one difference that I can see is that CGIb needs to read 
from/write to /var/lib/subdir (also owner/group = www).

When DR is set to /var/www everything seems to work fine.
When I set it to something else, CGIb stops working correctly.