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Re: Trouble running Perl script that require root privilege


Michael A Chase wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Aug 2002 12:43:13 -0400  "Humes, David  G."
> <David.Humes@jhuapl.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Note:  This is NOT a Perl question.
>
> Actually it is a Perl module problem.  There should be a "and $^O ne
> 'cygwin'" next to the test for VMS in the croak line.  Because Cygwin
> runs on top of Windows, it isn't identical to UNIX and this is one of
> the places where you get bit by the difference.

Yes, the bug is in Net::Ping. There was a short thread about this in the last
month or so. The cleanest solution would probably be to try the ping, and then
report an access denied error with a descriptive message. This avoids the need
to know about every system type and how ping behaves.

Max.


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