Yeah I have tried all these things but unfortunately none of them work. I am a bit suspicious of one thing though. I am running Red Hat 6.2 and I installed Mandrake RPM's for the latest version of perl. I am beginning to suspect there was something wrong with that. Maybe I needed to use RedHat RPM's instead, but I thought Mandrake would be compatible. - Jme On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Troy Johnson wrote: > You can find out easily by executing: > > which perl > > at the command line. > > If you are running Red Hat your Perl is probably /usr/bin/perl, but many programs (and I think the default install of Perl) choose /usr/local/bin/perl instead. If you would like to run those programs without modification you can make a symbolic link: > > ln -s /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/perl > > as root. > > Good luck, > > Troy > > >>> ksm at dogbrain.com 03/08/01 10:11PM >>> > Similar to what Yaron suggested, what is the first line of your > perl script? > > It should be #!/usr/bin/perl or something very much like it. It > should point to where perl is installed on your system. > > Regards > > - Karl > > On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 10:03:09PM -0600, Jamie Ostrowski wrote: > > > > > > No, the program actually is a download from a site off slashdot. It is > > the mudshell program, if you are familiar with that, and I have only > > opened it up on the server. Thanks for trying though. > > > > This is a long shot, but have you edited them on Windows? This happened > > > to us when my wife edited perl files on Windows, and a ^M got added to the > > > end of #! /usr/bin/perl. > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -- "It is a mistake to let any mechanical object realise that you are in a hurry." --Ralph