Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <018201c23d9d$9b0f0d90$0100a8c0@wdg.uk.ibm.com> From: "Max Bowsher" To: References: Subject: Re: Trouble running Perl script that require root privilege Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 00:01:46 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Michael A Chase wrote: > On Tue, 6 Aug 2002 12:43:13 -0400 "Humes, David G." > 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. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/