At 4:16 PM -0700 7/31/03, Michael G Schwern wrote: > >Well, WRT not having an echo service running; if its just that the tests >expect an echo server to be present the test could check for it and if >not set up a real simple one.
The tests already check for the presence of an echo service and skip if it is not present. So no test failures are visible in a Perl built against a default configuration of the vendor-supplied TCP/IP stack. >The only problem is echo is a priviledged >port (at least on Unix) so you'd have to be root to do this. A simple fix >would be to extend the Net::Ping interface to accept an optional port # >for the echo server. I'm pretty sure on VMS the privileges would reside with the service rather than with the port. So if you want to punch a wide gaping hole in your system on port 7 or any other port you can do so if you have the privileges to create a service. This is not something I've done myself so my impression may not be correct or complete. -- ________________________________________ Craig A. Berry mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] "... getting out of a sonnet is much more difficult than getting in." Brad Leithauser
