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>Short answer: You have RHEL, put in a support call.

Right. And paid support...

>Medium answer: We cannot tell you much without know how you tried to
>install perl 5.8.8.  RPM from a later version of RHEL?  Compiled from
>source?

Used rpm -e to erase current install. Used source to install with.

>Long answer: If you have a valid backup, restore your system.  If you

It didn't work. That will be the next investigation.

>don't then try reinstalling the original RPMs from RHEL and see if you
>can get things up and running again.  Once you are up and running

I had just retrieved the install cd's to try that with.

>/opt/perl5.8.8/bin/perl instead of /usr/bin/perl.  Or, you can upgrade
>to RHEL5 which already has perl 5.8.8.

Tried that but a couple of the disks failed the media check. So I'm running
them again in another system to determine if the cdrom or the disks are
bad. So far it looks like the disks. So I'll have to redownload a few.

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Kevin W. Gagel
Network Administrator
Information Technology Services
(250) 562-2131 local 448
My Blog:
http://mail.cnc.bc.ca/blogs/gagel

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