Hi. I'm a new Perl programmer and CPAN user.
Here's my problem: When I try to use CPAN to fetch something, all the normal mechanisms time out, and then I get down to ncftpget, which works. I'm not behind a firewall, so I would have thought that LWP would work (as a matter of fact, I've written Perl scripts using LWP that run on this machine and work fine). I'd like to know why the first fetch methods fail, but I'd settle for being able to configure CPAN to use ncftpget immediately... I've read CPAN.pm and don't see anything obvious. Insights? Thanks, TJIC ------------------------------ snip! ------------------------------ cpan> install JavaScript CPAN: Storable loaded ok Going to read /root/.cpan/Metadata Database was generated on Mon, 23 Jun 2003 21:43:28 GMT Running install for module JavaScript Running make for C/CL/CLAESJAC/JavaScript-0.52.tar.gz CPAN: LWP::UserAgent loaded ok Fetching with LWP: ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/authors/id/C/CL/CLAESJAC/JavaScript-0.52.tar.gz LWP failed with code[400] message[FTP return code 000] Fetching with Net::FTP: ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/authors/id/C/CL/CLAESJAC/JavaScript-0.52.tar.gz Couldn't fetch JavaScript-0.52.tar.gz from ftp.perl.org Trying with "/usr/bin/ncftpget" to get ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/authors/id/C/CL/CLAESJAC/JavaScript-0.52.tar.gz JavaScript-0.52.tar.gz: JavaScript-0.52.tar.gz: ETA: 0:00 2.83/ 14.72 kB 117.79 kB/s JavaScript-0.52.tar.gz: ETA: 0:00 14.72/ 14.72 kB 54.83 kB/s JavaScript-0.52.tar.gz: 14.72 kB 54.83 kB/s JavaScript-0.52.tar.gz: 14.72 kB 54.83 kB/s CPAN: Digest::MD5 loaded ok ... ------------------------------ snip! ------------------------------ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]