I dont understand.  Where or how do we create this link ( ln -s
/opt/perl/bin/perl /usr/bin/perl)?



"LoBue, Mark" wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bob Showalter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 11:08 AM
> > To: 'LoBue, Mark'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: RE: Problem running the socket programming
> >
> >
> > LoBue, Mark wrote:
> > > ...
> > > On my HP-UX systems, the location of perl changed from 10.2 to 11
> > >
> > > 10.2 = /usr/local/bin/perl
> > >
> > > 11 = /opt/perl/bin/perl
> > >
> > > And, I couldn't add a link because /opt and /usr are 2 different
> > > logical volumes, so, I had to change the first line of my scripts to
> > > point to the new perl.
> >
> > A symbolic link is fine. The canonical location for perl on
> > the #! line is
> > /usr/bin/perl, which should be a link to the actual binary
> > you want to run.
> > That way you can avoid having to change all your scripts. The perl
> > installation will create this link for you, BTW.
> >
> >   ln -s /opt/perl/bin/perl /usr/bin/perl
> >
>
> Ok, that works, thanks.  perl (5.6.1) comes with 11.0, and the link was not
> there.
>
> -Mark
>
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