On Wed, August 31, 2005 7:31 am, Lola Lee said: > Lola Lee wrote: > >> For some reason, when I try to do "sudo cpan", it won't start up, and >> generates this following message: > > Well . . . I figured it out - removed .lock and all is back to normal. > I'd like to know why this happened, though.
Sounds like CPAN was (previously) started and not closed correctly. The .lock file was so that you don't accidentally run two copies at the same time. The message gives enough information for you to check if CPAN is currently running. So, the expected thing for you to do is to check if CPAN is running, and if it isn't, remove the .lock file and run CPAN. Which you did. ;) Daniel T. Staal --------------------------------------------------------------- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use the contents for non-commercial purposes. This copyright will expire 5 years after the author's death, or in 30 years, whichever is longer, unless such a period is in excess of local copyright law. ---------------------------------------------------------------
