> -----Original Message----- > From: Robert Warning [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2002 2:45 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Just started perl, but have run into a problem > > > Hello Everyone! > Well after using php to help make a couple web pages > I needed a > scripting language for client side apps. Since php is best > left for web > development I decided to learn perl because php is based on perl and I > thought it would be a fairly easy undertaking to get a good grasp in > perl and it has been so far. My only problem is that when I put > #!/usr/bin/perl at the beginning of any of my programs it wont run. I > get an output from the shell that says /usr/bin/perl: bad interpreter: > Permission denied. I could only run the script if I typed in: perl > PATH_TO_SCRIPT. Doing what any good linux user would do I checked the > permissions of the perl interpreter. The permissions were set > so anyone > could execute it.
It's not the permissions of perl that are the problem, it's the permissions of your script. chmod +x myscript > Then I thought something was wrong with the > interpreter. So I reinstalled perl and it still didn't work. Truly > frustrated I took off the perl interpreter that came with my > distribution, installed Active Perl made a link for the interpreter to > /usr/bin/perl and tried again. Right now I'm stumped. Just in case > anyone wonders I did not write any of my scripts in windows > so it would > read the script as /usr/bin/perl\r. Any help would be appreciated. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
