* Phil Dobbin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > You could always try chmod'ing to 755 /Users/emma/y/sources/authors/ > (i.e. your local CPAN directory).
The permission problem might exist in a parent directory; for a complete test, check each directory. This can be automated with a tool like 'parsepath': parsepath user=emma +w /Users/emma/y/sources/authors http://sial.org/howto/debug/unix/parsepath For sudo, I recommend using 'sudo -H' if installing as root, as otherwise CPAN may pick up on a local ~/.cpan directory instead of the system-wide directory.
