On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Troy Johnson wrote:

> What is the first line of the script?
> 
> If it isn't there already, perhaps you can add the -w switch and get more info from the script (or add it on the command line 'perl -w SCRIPTNAME').
> 
> If all else fails you could use the debug switch (-d)...


    This is strange. When I add the -w switch, the program runs! It
doesn't even send back any error messages. It just runs as it is supposed
to. Same with the debug switch. That did the trick. I wonder why it is
doing that? Thanks for the help!









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> >>> jamie at getsetnet.net 03/09/01 10:37AM >>>
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>    When I type /usr/bin/perl SCRIPTNAME  
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>    - the program runs fine.
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>     and when I type which perl, I get:
> 
> [jamie at floyd jamie]$ which perl
> /usr/bin/perl
> [jamie at floyd jamie]$ 
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> 
>     BTW, the script is set chmod 777 as well.
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>    - Jme
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> On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Jim Crumley wrote:
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> > On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 10:15:45AM -0600, Jamie Ostrowski wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > >     Yeah I have tried all these things but unfortunately none of them
> > > work. I am a bit suspicious of one thing though. I am running Red Hat 6.2
> > > and I installed Mandrake RPM's for the latest version of perl. I am
> > > beginning to suspect there was something wrong with that. Maybe I needed
> > > to use RedHat RPM's instead, but I thought Mandrake would be compatible. 
> > 
> > Well, what happens if you do /usr/bin/perl SCRIPTNAME?  What do you
> > get if you type "which perl"?
> > 
> > 
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