On Wednesday 05 November 2003 04:44, Stevens, Julian C wrote: >The version of perl on my amanda server is rather old (5.002). >However, as it was installed about 6 years ago, as part of another >application, I'm a bit nervous about upgrading it. >Would it be sensible to install 2 versions of perl? >If I install the latest version of perl in non-standard directories, > e.g. /usr/local/perl/bin and /usr/local/perl/lib, is there an > option to configure, that would enable these to be recognised when > amanda is built? Failing that, if I add /usr/local/perl/bin to the > start of my PATH variable, and add -L /usr/local/perl/lib to > LDFLAGS, would this have the desired effect. > >Any advice gratefully received, > >Julian
I have updated perl a bit beyond that, and don't recall that it ever broke older scripts unless they were broken to start with. However, coming up to date from 5.002 would be quite a jump, so I'd be a bit nervous. Try it in intermediate steps maybe. >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Paul Bijnens [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 2:27 PM >> To: Stevens, Julian C >> Cc: amanda users (E-mail) >> Subject: Re: amstatus: uninitialized value >> >> Stevens, Julian C wrote: >> > Use of uninitialized value at >> > /usr/local/lib/perl5/Getopt/Long.pm line >> >> 602. >> >> What version of perl do you have? >> -- >> Paul Bijnens, Xplanation Tel +32 16 >> 397.511 > >******************************************************************** >This email and any attachments are confidential to the intended >recipient and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended >recipient please delete it from your system and notify the sender. >You should not copy it or use it for any purpose nor disclose or >distribute its contents to any other person. >******************************************************************** -- Cheers, Gene AMD [EMAIL PROTECTED] 320M [EMAIL PROTECTED] 512M 99.27% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2003 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
