Except that I use the FreeBSD ports for all my installs and upgrades so that the proper FreeBSD patches get installed. CPAN tends to corrupt my Perl modules and break things.
I know about switching back and fourth between the two versions of perl in FreeBSD. It's just REALLY sloppy and I'd rather not do it, especially since so many things in the FreeBSD 4.x core system rely on Perl and this is a production server that handles 40,000+ e-mails and more than a million web hits per day. Tim Tim Gustafson MEI Technology Consulting, Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] (516) 379-0001 Office (516) 480-1870 Mobile/Emergencies http://www.meitech.com/ -----Original Message----- From: Martin Hepworth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2004 11:20 AM To: Gustafson, Tim Subject: Re: Errors While Running sa-learn Tim reinstalling the perl modules should be fairly easy (CPAN), and you can flip between the two with user.perl system and use.perl port cleaver huh?? so you can test etc you code.. -- Martin Hepworth Senior Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Ltd tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 Gustafson, Tim wrote: > Yes, but if I do that, then I also have to reinstall all my perl modules and > probably re-write a large portion of my perl scripts that do a zillion > things on my server. I'm not totally against doing that, I just haven't > decided to yet. > > > Tim Gustafson > MEI Technology Consulting, Inc > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > (516) 379-0001 Office > (516) 480-1870 Mobile/Emergencies > http://www.meitech.com/ > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Martin Hepworth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2004 10:58 AM > To: Gustafson, Tim; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Errors While Running sa-learn > > > Tim > > unless you install perl 5.8 from the ports tree.... > > ********************************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This footnote confirms that this email message has been swept for the presence of computer viruses and is believed to be clean. **********************************************************************
