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From: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.2.1  - P5-Proc::ProcessTable and other modules not
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On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, Andrew Nelson wrote:

> I've upgraded from FreeBSD 4.8 to 5.2.1 and have
> noticed a number of script don't work...  One perl
> module i've found so far is:
>
> Proc::ProcessTable.  The subroutines just return
> no result  (even the examples given at CPAN).
>
> Another script (which uses flow-tools) has started
> using an enormous amount of memory.. All versions
> are the same except for actual FreeBSD.
>
> Can anyone help?  Do I need to re-install FreeBSD
> to a lower version?  If so, what version?

You probably need to upgrade your perl version.  5.x doesn't ship with
perl in base, so you are probably getting the old 4.x built-in version.

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