well, i came back to see what was to be said, and sure enough a reply. The "where is perl" command worked and replied by point me towards /usr/bin/perl and when i tried the command to read the log file, i saw this at the end (after i tried running the cgi)
[Wed Mar 6 20:14:19 2002] [error] (8)Exec format error: exec of /Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables/form.cgi failed
[Wed Mar 6 20:14:19 2002] [error] [client 192.168.0.16] Premature end of script headers: /Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables/form.cgi
so any idea to how i can remidy this?