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Re: Trouble running Perl script that require root privilege
On Wed, 7 Aug 2002 00:01:46 +0100 Max Bowsher <maxb@ukf.net> wrote:
> Michael A Chase wrote:
> > On Tue, 6 Aug 2002 12:43:13 -0400 "Humes, David G."
> > <David.Humes@jhuapl.edu> wrote:
> >
> >> Note: This is NOT a Perl question.
> >
> > Actually it is a Perl module problem. There should be a "and $^O ne
> > 'cygwin'" next to the test for VMS in the croak line. Because Cygwin
> > runs on top of Windows, it isn't identical to UNIX and this is one of
> > the places where you get bit by the difference.
>
> Yes, the bug is in Net::Ping. There was a short thread about this in the last
> month or so. The cleanest solution would probably be to try the ping, and then
> report an access denied error with a descriptive message. This avoids the need
> to know about every system type and how ping behaves.
Thanks, that would be more efficient overall. I did a Google search for
that thread and couldn't find it.
David, you may want to send a report to perlbug@perl.org.
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