At Wed, 14 Mar 2001 10:19:42 +0000 (GMT), Mark Fowler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > <Finding out where perl is>
>
> <parody>
> Stop, stop, this script archive is not ready yet! Where are the Hello
> world examples? Where are the detailed instructions? And why are you
> actually working on these scripts yet!
> </parody>
>
> You're all getting ahead of yourselves. We need to write a set of
> helloWorld scripts that the script user can upload first to find out
> the basic facts about their server and check everything is working.
>
> a) You have multiple copys of the script with different shebang lines
> on the top. Only one of these will work and one of the things it'll
> do is print our is "The first line of programs you upload to this
> server should be #!/blah/perl"
>
> b) It checks your perl version is reasonable. Actually it probably
> should do this before a) in case there are several versions installed.
>
> c) It tests if you've got a borken version of CGI.pm (or CGI.pm at
> all) by looking at version numbers, etc. Same for other modules.
>
> d) It links to an image in the same directory as itself and explains
> that if the image isn't viewable then you do not have inplace cgi and
> the things you have to know about this
>
> e) It prints out the time, and GMT time thus highlighting to the user
> any problems they might have if this is wrong
>
> f) It prints out a hunk of diagnostic information (e.g. perl version,
> module versions, url, etc, etc)
My ms-env script does a lot of this.
<http://www.mag-sol.com/Scripts/ms-env-2.0.tar.gz>
Mind you, it _does_ rely on CGI.pm being available.
Dave...
