Hallo Michael, you wrote:
> I used to be able to use CPAN (only a week or so ago) but now it seems to > time out. I thought it might be a network / firewall type thing but I can > use ncftp ok. See below ... > $ cpan Perl::Tokenizer > CPAN: Storable loaded ok > Going to read /home/wardmm/.cpan/Metadata > Database was generated on Tue, 23 Sep 2003 00:45:53 GMT > Going to read /home/wardmm/.cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz > CPAN: Compress::Zlib loaded ok > CPAN: LWP::UserAgent loaded ok > Fetching with LWP: > ftp://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/perl/CPAN/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz > LWP failed with code[400] message[FTP return code 000] [...] Looks like network problems. > (and so on --- had to can it) > (but i can get the file ok ... ?? ) > $ ncftpget > ftp://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/perl/CPAN/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz > Who are you? > You have a user id number of 4012, but no username associated with it. > 02packages.details.txt.gz: 237.34 kB 3.11 > kB/s > Does anyone have an idea what is going on here? Or what I could try? > I'm a long-term cygwin user but I don't really know what's going on > underneath. You didn't told me which version of cygwin `uname -svr` and which version of perl `perl -V` (capital V) you're using now. Please *attach* also the output of cygcheck -svr to your reply. Gerrit -- =^..^= -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
