Strict Subs??

[Bruce Marshall]

Still diddling with Kubuntu and making progress....  

I'm trying to run a simple script file out of /usr/local/bin/  that works fine 
under SuSE. (normal user)

However under kubuntu, I get all kinds of strange errors but the strangest one 
is:

Bareword  "<word>" not allowed while "strict subs" in use at (eval 1) line 1.

Doing some googling, all I can find on this is an error message that perl will 
put out.  Yet as far as I know, there shouldn't be any perl involved here.

I'm still getting used to the (what I would call)  screwed up root situation 
under kubuntu.   Seems they want to save me from myself and I don't care for 
that attitude very much.   I suspect my problems are caused by their 'care'.

Can anyone hit me with a cluestick?