From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 12 17:57:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from home.offwhite.net (home.offwhite.net [156.46.35.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A17A37B719 for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 17:57:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brennan@offwhite.net) Received: from localhost (brennan@localhost) by home.offwhite.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f2D1vVh27420 for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 19:57:31 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from brennan@offwhite.net) Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 19:57:31 -0600 (CST) From: Brennan Stehling To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: upgrading to perl 5.6 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I would like to use the IO::Socket module but it requires perl 5.6. I realize that perl is integrated rather closely with FreeBSD and various system tools so I am unsure how a perl upgrade would affect the system. Has anyone upgraded perl to 5.6? Has it affected cgi scripts badly or any of the system utilities? Also, is there a way to install it safely to another location? I am running 2 FreeBSD 4.2 systems which were both built in the last 3 months. Any tips would be appreciated. Brennan Stehling - software developer and system administrator my projects: home.offwhite.net (free personal hosting) www.greasydaemon.com (bsd search) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message