On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 11:38 -0700, CavesOfTQLT wrote: > Pat, if I type ' file /usr/bin/perl5.8.5' I get, wait for it... > > /usr/bin/perl5.8.5: cannot open `/usr/bin/perl5.8.5' (No such file or > directory)
that is bad. Try a cd to /usr/bin, do assorted 'ls perl*' commands. If you do a 'file' on the name that "which perl" tells you, you had better get something like I got, or you are in deep. I get [EMAIL PROTECTED] pfarrell]$ which perl /usr/bin/perl [EMAIL PROTECTED] pfarrell]$ file /usr/bin/perl /usr/bin/perl: symbolic link to `perl5' [EMAIL PROTECTED] pfarrell]$ file /usr/bin/perl5 /usr/bin/perl5: symbolic link to `perl5.8.5' [EMAIL PROTECTED] pfarrell]$ file /usr/bin/perl5.8.5 /usr/bin/perl5.8.5: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.2.5, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped [EMAIL PROTECTED] pfarrell]$ More directly, using 'ls' [EMAIL PROTECTED] pfarrell]$ cd /usr/bin [EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]$ ls -l perl5 perl5 perl5.8.5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]$ ls -l perl5.8.5 -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 11132 Apr 26 17:26 perl5.8.5* -- Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html _______________________________________________ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
