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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Ridiculous Newbie Question: perl with FreeBSD 2.0.5?
Date: 24 Jul 1995 10:45:20 +0200
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Thomas Gellekum <thomas@ghpc8.ihf.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:
>> Is there anything in particular I need to do in order to get perl
working under >> FreeBSD 2.0.5? I can't seem to get scripts to
execute (I _have_ chmod'd them).
>perl is in the FreeBSD distribution, as /usr/bin/perl. Maybe you
>need to edit the first line in your scripts
>(`#!/wherever/perl/lives'), but that's just a guess.
In addition, if you try to run setuid scripts, make this line
explicitly referencing #!/usr/bin/suidperl. The normal way (let Perl
decide itself to run suidperl) will perhaps not work since perl is
looking up the suidperl by version number and won't find it.
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)