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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!hunter.premier.net!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!news.gtn.com!klicman.de!ora.de!bad From: bad@ora.de (Christoph Badura) Subject: Re: NetBSD + Perl 5.001 problem Message-ID: <Dy9F48.679@ora.de> Organization: O'Reilly/International Thomson Verlag References: <Dy8vLx.zI@news.home.ml-associates.co.uk> Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 23:12:07 GMT Lines: 19 In <Dy8vLx.zI@news.home.ml-associates.co.uk> msmith@ml-associates.co.uk (Matthew Smith) writes: >Am having problems with several 'net' packages written >in perl when run under NetBSD. >I am trying to use perl5.001. >Two packages I am having problems with are: > webcopy (ftp://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/computing/ > information-systems/www/tools/webcopy/) > mirror (ftp://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/packages/mirror/) I had no problems running mirror with perl5.002 and 5.003 on NetBSD. Perhaps upgrading to a more modern version would help. Note that perl versions previous to 5.003 have a security hole regarding setuid scripts on NetBSD. -- Christoph Badura O'Reilly/International Thomson Verlag