user@wilbur:/etc/apache2/mods-enabled$ cat perl.conf
<IfModule mod_perl.c>
SetHandler perl-script
PerlResponseHandler ModPerl::Registry
PerlOptions +ParseHeaders
PerlOptions -GlobalRequest
Options +ExecCGI
AddType application/x-httpd-perl .pl
</IfModule>

In error.log
[Wed Dec 26 13:18:21 2007] [error] Options ExecCGI is off in this directory/var/www/index.html