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Debian Etch On running; cpan[1]> clean BerkeleyDB it prompts:- ... .... ftp: myurl: Unknown host Not connected. Local directory now /root/.cpan/sources/modules Not connected. Not connected. Not connected. Not connected. Bad luck... Still failed! Can't access URL ftp://myurl/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz. Please check, if the URLs I found in your configuration file (ftp://myurl/, ftp://myurl/) are valid. The urllist can be edited. E.g. with 'o conf urllist push ftp://myurl/' Could not fetch modules/02packages.details.txt.gz Trying to get away with old file: 214018 692 -rw-r--r-- 1 0 0 704333 Nov 1 15:23 /root/.cpan/sources/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz Going to read /root/.cpan/sources/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz CPAN: Compress::Zlib loaded ok (v2.015) Database was generated on Sat, 01 Nov 2008 10:27:06 GMT Could not fetch modules/02packages.details.txt.gz Trying to get away with old file: 214018 692 -rw-r--r-- 1 0 0 704333 Nov 1 15:23 /root/.cpan/sources/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz Going to read /root/.cpan/sources/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz CPAN: Compress::Zlib loaded ok (v2.015) Database was generated on Sat, 01 Nov 2008 10:27:06 GMT ........................................................... ............................................................................DONE Going to write /root/.cpan/Metadata Running clean for module 'BerkeleyDB' Running make clean Distribution seems to have never been unzipped/untarred, nothing done Then I did cpan[1]> o conf urllist push ftp://myurl/ commit: wrote '/etc/perl/CPAN/Config.pm' Tried again; cpan[1]> clean BerkeleyDB it prompts again:- ...... ..... Could not fetch modules/03modlist.data.gz Trying to get away with old file: 214020 156 -rw-r--r-- 1 0 0 153652 Nov 2 08:31 /root/.cpan/sources/modules/03modlist.data.gz Going to read /root/.cpan/sources/modules/03modlist.data.gz Unchanged. Going to write /root/.cpan/Metadata Running clean for module 'BerkeleyDB' Running make clean Distribution seems to have never been unzipped/untarred, nothing done It seems still looking on the old file. Please advise how to fix the problem. TIA B.R. Stephen L Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com