did you try using the cmd 'use.perl port' as root first? also, you can get alot of those perl modules from ports also.. the ones I know off hand:
/usr/ports/devel /usr/ports/lang /usr/ports/net /usr/ports/www I believe 'LWP' is in /usr/ports/www/p5-libwww On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Tomoki Taniguchi wrote: > I just installed perl 5.8 from ports tree. Now I am trying to update all my > perl module using CPAN... > when I run > "/usr/local/bin/perl -MCPAN -eshell" > and run "install Bundle::CPAN" > for some reason I can't seem to connect to anything. > I can manually get to each of those ftp sites and grab the file if I want to, > but was wondering why perl was failing this... > I get the error messages below... > > -tomoki > > <SNIP> > LWP not available > CPAN: Net::FTP loaded ok > Fetching with Net::FTP: > ftp://carroll.cac.psu.edu/pub/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz > Couldn't login on carroll.cac.psu.edu at /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.0/CPAN.pm > line 2178, <FIN> line 1. > LWP not available > Fetching with Net::FTP: > ftp://cpan.nas.nasa.gov/pub/perl/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz > Couldn't fetch 01mailrc.txt.gz from cpan.nas.nasa.gov > LWP not available > Fetching with Net::FTP: > ftp://cpan.uky.edu/pub/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz > </SNIP> > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message