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Date:      Tue, 2 Jun 1998 23:44:43 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Dean Hollister <dean@odyssey.apana.org.au>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Perl: localtime() problem resolved
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980602234402.22038e-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980602105507.17024B-100000@odyssey.apana.org.au>

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On Tue, 2 Jun 1998, Dean Hollister wrote:

> On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, Doug White wrote:
> 
> > No, we've always put perl4 in /usr/bin.  perl is needed for some of the
> > system utils, ie newuser, killall.
> 
> Yep. Is it possible to alter the setup proceedure to look for perl first.
> This can be a nuisance, especially if you run innd (which requires perl5).

When I put perl5 on the box, I moved /usr/bin/perl to /usr/bin/perl4 and
linked /usr/bin/perl to /usr/local/bin/perl.  Most perl4 scripts should
work under perl5; those that don't, we make a one-character change to the
top of the script.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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