psync Panther and sym links

2004-03-19 Thread Bill Metzinger
I can't find any references to my particular problem. I guess I'm special. I hope someone can shed a little light. I've used psync for years on OSX. I call it from a shell script during my daily cron. Everything worked great until Panther. When psync runs it copies symbolic links like normal.

re: psync trouble

2003-09-25 Thread Bill Metzinger
I'm getting close. psync doesn't seem to set file permissions. It sets directory permissions, sort of. I'm looking at the browser Camino. My source file /Camino.app/Contents/MacOS/Camino is set to 771. When psync copies it, the target /Camino.app/Contents/MacOS/Camino is set to 644. When I

Re: Perl 5.8 locale

2003-03-02 Thread Bill Metzinger
Thank you! The link you provided led me to another http://duke.usask.ca/~dalglb/macosx/Perl_5.6.html which had a script that created the environment.plist file and ended my locale problem. Happy in Pennsylvania Bill

Perl 5.8 locale

2003-03-02 Thread Bill Metzinger
I'm using OSXS 10.2.4. One of the perl modules I want needs me to upgrade my perl 5.6. So first I tried the Apple supplied Perl-5.8.0-MacOSX.tar.gz. That was a hassle free install but led to my following error. I thought going thru CPAN and getting stable.tar.gz would help. After the config