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Andrew DeFaria wrote:
> Reini Urban wrote:
>> 2009/8/20 Andrew DeFaria:
>>> Huh? It's not a permissions problem, it's a file naming problem. 
>>> Removing the /home/p6258c/.cpan/modules to make this simpler, the 
>>> error message is saying it is unable to rename 
>>> 03modlist.data.*gz*.tmp3996 because there is no such file or 
>>> directory. The error message is right - there is no file by that 
>>> name. There is, however, a file by the name of 
>>> 03modlist.data.tmp3669.*gz*. Note the placement of the letters "gz" 
>>> - highlighted by surrounding it with "*"'s (that are not in the 
>>> filename nor the error message). Of course mv will not work when you 
>>> use the wrong file name. The question is why is cpan(1) using the 
>>> wrong file name? Or is it ncftpget which gets it wrong? I don't 
>>> know. All I know is that it just doesn't work...
>> Looks like your download client (ncftp) misnames the output name. I 
>> use wget successfully with the proxy settings at work. LWP should 
>> also be able to use a proxy.
> I would think that ncftp would only name a file that which it was told 
> to name a file. Do you know of any way to turn on tracing of some sort 
> to see more of what is going on under the hood?
>
> Thanks for the ideas of trying to set proxy info for other methods 
> such as wget and LWP. I thought I did try setting that before. Any 
> pointers on how you do set that proxy info?
Figured out my problem with getting stuff from the net - seems the cpan 
parameters were overriding my http_proxy and ftp_proxy environment 
settings. Now I have curl working correctly and I am downloading things.

Meantime, I get the following problem:

$ cpan Algorithm::Diff
...
Running make install
Prepending 
/home/p6258c/.cpan/build/Algorithm-Diff-1.1902-7kZkOA/blib/arch 
/home/p6258c/.cpan/build/Algorithm-Diff-1.1902-7kZkOA/blib/lib 
/home/p6258c/.cpan/build/CPAN-1.9402-SZbdyV/blib/arch 
/home/p6258c/.cpan/build/CPAN-1.9402-SZbdyV/blib/lib to PERL5LIB for 
'install'
Use of uninitialized value $pipe in <HANDLE> at 
/usr/lib/perl5/5.10/CPAN.pm line 8981.
readline() on unopened filehandle at /usr/lib/perl5/5.10/CPAN.pm line 8981.
Catching error: 'Can\'t call method "close" on an undefined value at 
/usr/lib/perl5/5.10/CPAN.pm line 8987.
' at /usr/lib/perl5/5.10/CPAN.pm line 281
        CPAN::shell() called at /bin/cpan line 198

cpan[8]>

Any ideas?
-- 
Andrew DeFaria <http://defaria.com>
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