--- Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Jan 2004 05:18:00 -0800 (PST)
> J Ingersoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > IS THERE a manual / document somewhere that explains in a little
> > detail what is being asked in this config process?
>
> perldoc CPAN
>
> That will answer all your questions
>
>
> --
> Owen
>
Thanks and sorry for my somewhat inexact post initially (frustration :^{
Regarding running perl -MCPAN -e 'install Bundle::CPAN' ...
In my perl 5.6.1 system,
after switching from a sudo'd user to root,
and after taking care of some prerequisites (libnet, MD5),
... everything for the latest Bundle::CPAN appears to install correctly.
originally kept seeing 'make test' fail --
(not 'test install' like I said initially :) --
getting :
CPAN.pm panic: deep recursion in color_cmd_tmps depth[100]
self[CPAN::Distribution=HASH(0x9715364)]
id[M/MS/MSCHWERN/Test-Simple-0.47.tar.gz]
As for my request for documentation, it was mainly for -----------
Q: Should all FTP connections be passive (y|n) ?
Q: What is you local internet domain name : []
-------------- in the original (failed) install. These of course didn't
cause the failure. Nevertheless, it's good to know what's going on;
`perldoc CPAN` has a lot of good information but doesn't explain what
'local internet domain name' is needed for (apparently now not an issue)
... regarding passive FTP -----
<quote>
One way visibility
... So for these types of firewall FTP connec-
tions need to be done in a passive mode.
...
IP Masquerade
...
For accessing ftp servers behind such firewalls
you may need to set the environment variable
"FTP_PASSIVE" to a true value, e.g.
env FTP_PASSIVE=1 perl -MCPAN -eshell
</quote>
----- But I'm not doing IP Masquerading. Wondering whether this applies.
thanks again,
-resend; initial reply(s) went only to Owen -
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