zentara wrote: >On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 17:45:17 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jan Eden) >wrote: > >>Hi all, >> >>I just wrote a CGI script using the Storable module, which works >>fine on my machine. The script retrieves a complex hash and either >>prints it out or updates it and stores it back. >> >>But my ISP does not have Storable installed. >> >>Is there a way to install Storable in my home dir on the server? Is >>it a pure Perl module in this respect? > >Storable is not pure Perl, but you have "a chance" of being able to >install it in your home dir. You beed to find what platform your >remote server runs, and see if you can get a pre-built binary rpm >package for it , then ssh in and try to install it in your home dir. >
This is another disadvantage: The ISP won't let me ssh to the server. I just get FTP access. >If you are lucky, and you are running the same OS as your remote >server, you could compile it on your home machine, and install it on >the remote machine. > They run Linux, while my system is on Mac OS X. So even if I could ssh... but I rewrote the script to use Data::Dumper instead: slower, less elegant, larger files, but it works reasonably fast. >It would be tricky, but it could be done. The other alternative, is >tell your ISP that you will switch if they don't install it. My >"discount priced" remote server uses Cpanel and has Storable >installed. It's probably cheaper than yours. >http://affiliate.affordablehost.com/cgi-bin/clickthru.cgi?id=zentara > I will check this out. My ISP is really cheap, though, but more and more it looks like being too cheap. ;) Thanks, Jan -- Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
