From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 2 23:45:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA06926 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 2 Jun 1998 23:45:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA06891 for ; Tue, 2 Jun 1998 23:45:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id XAA22667; Tue, 2 Jun 1998 23:44:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 2 Jun 1998 23:44:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Dean Hollister cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Perl: localtime() problem resolved In-Reply-To: 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 On Tue, 2 Jun 1998, Dean Hollister wrote: > On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, Doug White wrote: > > > No, we've always put perl4 in /usr/bin. perl is needed for some of the > > system utils, ie newuser, killall. > > Yep. Is it possible to alter the setup proceedure to look for perl first. > This can be a nuisance, especially if you run innd (which requires perl5). When I put perl5 on the box, I moved /usr/bin/perl to /usr/bin/perl4 and linked /usr/bin/perl to /usr/local/bin/perl. Most perl4 scripts should work under perl5; those that don't, we make a one-character change to the top of the script. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message