Re: New libnet-1.0704 creates error

At 2:09 PM -0400 10/22/01, Ron Pero wrote:
>Greetings
>
>I've just downloaded and installed libnet-1.0704.
>A script that always worked before now fails.
>
>This is the error message:
>The getpwuid function is unimplemented at
>c:\Perl\site\5.005\lib/Net/Config.pm line 47
>
>Lines 46 and 47 are:
>if ($< == $> and !$CONFIGURE)  {
>     my $home = eval { (getpwuid($>))[7] } || $ENV{HOME};
>
>I am running NT 4.
>
>Where does $CONFIGURE get defined?


I did a recursive directory search in my whole Perl lib tree and did 
not see a definition of this anywhere


>
>Any thoughts on how to avoid this error, besides ditching NT 4?

What sort of Perl are you using? I typed perldoc -f getpwuid from the 
shell on my Solaris system and getpwuid was documented..

maybe type perl -V and tell us what version you are using.


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