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 Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 16:21:27 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) From: Michael A Chase Subject: Re: Trouble running Perl script that require root privilege To: Max Bowsher , cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: INLINE References: <018201c23d9d$9b0f0d90$0100a8c0@wdg.uk.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <018201c23d9d$9b0f0d90$0100a8c0@wdg.uk.ibm.com> On Wed, 7 Aug 2002 00:01:46 +0100 Max Bowsher wrote: > Michael A Chase wrote: > > On Tue, 6 Aug 2002 12:43:13 -0400 "Humes, David G." > > wrote: > > > >> 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. Thanks, that would be more efficient overall. I did a Google search for that thread and couldn't find it. David, you may want to send a report to perlbug@perl.org. -- Mac :}) ** I normally forward private questions to the appropriate mail list. ** Ask Smarter: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html Give a hobbit a fish and he eats fish for a day. Give a hobbit a ring and he eats fish for an age. -- 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/