Hi: *PLEASE* read the output of the CPAN shell. It tells you that "myurl" is an unknown host and you will need to do "o conf" to fix the urllist variable.
I would do "o conf init" again, and it should ask you to go through the url list to select servers. Cheers, Jon On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 12:41 AM, Stephen Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi folks, > > > 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 >
