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Subject: Re: Perl script
To: nschuler@sparrow.sanasys.com (Nathan Schuler)
Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 08:03:48 -0500 (CDT)
Cc: dima@stv.ee, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19970530003602.006d8b60@sparrow.sanasys.com> from Nathan Schuler at "May 29, 97 07:36:02 pm"
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In a previous message, Nathan Schuler said:
> >I have a file (counter.cgi) in /usr/home/dima/cgi-bin directory.
> >The execution right is applied.
> >The first line of file is "#!/usr/bin/perl"
> >BUT !
> >when I am typing  ">counter.cgi" I got a
> >command not found.
> >It works only in ">perl counter.cgi" variant.
> >How can I start only "counter.cgi" ?
> 
> The path /usr/bin/perl is not correct.  Try "which perl" to get the correct
> path.  Also your shell could require that you use "./counter.cgi"

/usr/bin/perl is correct. That's the 4.036 version, installed by default.
You'll probably want to use Version 5.004 (as of today, there was a CERT
advisory) however, which would be in /usr/local/bin/perl

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