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>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.BSF.3.96.980602234402.22038e-100000>