At 12:47 PM -0500 3/8/02, Ari Kahn wrote:
>I read in http://developer.apple.com/internet/macosx/perl.html that there
>might be "
>difficulties when installing a software package that was designed for a
>case-sensitive system. For example, libwww-perl by default installs an HTTP
>script called HEAD, which is used to make an HTTP HEAD request. If this is
>installed to /usr/bin, it can overwrite the BSD built-in /usr/bin/head
>command, used for reading the beginnings of files. To prevent this kind of
>collision when using HFS+, it's necessary to configure CPAN.pm to install
>modules to a private directory. "
>
>Has anyone had this issue when using the default CPAN settings? Or has this
>been corrected with darwin.hints?
Wow! This finally explains how my head binary got overwritten. I
couldn't figure out why /etc/daily was suddenly giving me errors like:
Rotating log files: system.logUnknown option: 1
Usage: head [-options] <url>...
-m <method> use method for the request (default is 'HEAD')
-f make request even if head believes method is illegal
-b <base> Use the specified URL as base
-t <timeout> Set timeout value
-i <time> Set the If-Modified-Since header on the request
-c <conttype> use this content-type for POST, PUT, CHECKIN
-a Use text mode for content I/O
-p <proxyurl> use this as a proxy
-P don't load proxy settings from environment
-H <header> send this HTTP header (you can specify several)
-u Display method and URL before any response
-U Display request headers (implies -u)
-s Display response status code
-S Display response status chain
-e Display response headers
-d Do not display content
-o <format> Process HTML content in various ways
-v Show program version
-h Print this message
-x Extra debugging output
Cleaning web server log files:
I ended up replacing head with a binary from a different X machine,
and all was well.
Thanks for clearing up the mystery!
jon
