Mr. Barr, My apologies for taking your time. I recently attempted to install your module libnet-1.0703.tar and got very close to comletion using CPAN and then spat out these test failures. I'm not quite certian as yet where I erred. Have I maybe configured it to look at a port that isn't available.
/usr/bin/make -- OK Running make test PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/bin/perl -Iblib/arch -Iblib/lib - I/usr/lib/perl/5.6.1 -I/usr/share/perl/5.6.1 -e 'use Test::Harness qw(&runtests $verbose); $verbose=0; runtests @ARGV;' t/*.t t/ftp...............libnet.tst: Permission denied t/ftp...............FAILED tests 4- 6 Failed 3/7 tests, 57.14% okay t/hostname..........ok t/nntp..............FAILED tests 1- 4 Failed 4/4 tests, 0.00% okay t/ph................FAILED tests 1- 5 Failed 5/5 tests, 0.00% okay t/require...........ok t/smtp..............ok Failed Test Status Wstat Total Fail Failed List of Failed ---------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------- t/ftp.t 7 3 42.86% 4-6 t/nntp.t 4 4 100.00% 1-4 t/ph.t 5 5 100.00% 1-5 Failed 3/6 test scripts, 50.00% okay. 12/31 subtests failed, 61.29% okay. make: *** [test_dynamic] Error 29 /usr/bin/make test -- NOT OK Running make install make test had returned bad status, won't install without force cpan> I'm running Debian 2.2r3