Perl Difficulties


December 28th, 2004 - 21:51 | 6 comments

A broken putty screenshot

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Can anyone explain what the hell is going on in the above screen? I’ve logged into my website via ssh (I think - port 22 through putty anyway) and this command just does nothing. I’m not a big perl/linux/putty/telnet/ssh/anything user, but I swear this *used* to work. Perl’s definitely functioning properly as shown by the basic program I ran first. I’m trying to get mt-blacklist working so that I can stem the flow of comment-spam emails I’m getting all the time…

Help!

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6 Responses to “Perl Difficulties” 

  1. Gravatar Icon 1 Edward 

    Does the file actually exist? (do: ls)

  2. Gravatar Icon 2 Edward 

    uhm… sorry am blind….
    try using tab-complete?

  3. Gravatar Icon 3 Edward 

    also what does ‘whereis perl’ return?

  4. Gravatar Icon 4 Krypto 

    whereis perl:
    perl: /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/perl /usr/share/man/man1/perl.1.gz

    tab doesn’t do anything other than insert a tab…

    This is somewhat odd

  5. Gravatar Icon 5 Krypto 

    Asked my hosts and they say there’s a scripting error. Not convinced, but shall try deleting it all and re-uploading *again*…

  6. Gravatar Icon 6 Krypto 

    My hosts have no idea what’s going on :-( They say it’s definitely a scripting error, which seems unlikely. And they haven’t said anything about the perl problem. Hmmmm.

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