2009/8/20 Andrew DeFaria: > Huh? It's not a permissions problem, it's a file naming problem. Removing > the /home/p6258c/.cpan/modules to make this simpler, the error message is > saying it is unable to rename 03modlist.data.*gz*.tmp3996 because there is > no such file or directory. The error message is right - there is no file by > that name. There is, however, a file by the name of > 03modlist.data.tmp3669.*gz*. Note the placement of the letters "gz" - > highlighted by surrounding it with "*"'s (that are not in the filename nor > the error message). Of course mv will not work when you use the wrong file > name. The question is why is cpan(1) using the wrong file name? Or is it > ncftpget which gets it wrong? I don't know. All I know is that it just > doesn't work...
Looks like your download client (ncftp) misnames the output name. I use wget successfully with the proxy settings at work. LWP should also be able to use a proxy. -- Reini Urban http://phpwiki.org/ http://murbreak.at/ -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple