APM: cgi problem

[Bob Richards]

I have a bunch of software on a server and about 5% of the time
cgi loses all the data coming from the previous page.

my sofware typically starts like this:

#!/usr/local/bin/perl
chdir "/home/sites/home/web/cgi";
push(@INC,"common/univtasks");
require("common/univtasks.pl");
use DBI;
use CGI;
&usup();

and then in univtasks I have the usup subroutine do this:

	$q = new CGI;
	(@names) = $q->param;
	foreach (@names) { 
		$d{$_} = $q->param($_);
		$dx .= "$_=$d{$_}&";
	}
chop $dx;
open(DATA,">>/home/sites/home/data/tracker.txt"); 
print DATA "$ti \t $ENV{REMOTE_ADDR} \t $ENV{SCRIPT_URI}?$dx \n";
close (DATA);

Am I doing something wrong?
Is there a better way to do this?

Bob Richards
bob at blacklab.com