--- Reini Urban <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Elvin Peterson schrieb: > > Hello, > > The CPAN command: > > > > perl -MCPAN -e shell > > > > fails with: > > Cannot open >/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/CPAN/Config.pm > at > > /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/CPAN.pm line 1219 > > > > It looks like it is trying to write to a file > owned by > > Administrator. Is there a workaround to install > > modules as a user? > > root ownersip is okay. but it must be readable. > user-specific CPAN configs are stored in > ~/.cpan/CPAN/MyConfig.pm
I have read access for the file (as I do for all the files in /usr/bin). I don't have a $HOME/.cpan (the script didn't get that far). Thanks for the reply. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We finish. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail -- 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/