in reply to perl 5.6.0-5.6.1 upgrade problem

You should check your path statement. It sounds like you may have different versions of the perl binary floating around. I recently upgraded a Solaris 7.0 to perl 5.6.1 and found that the Web Administrator had put copies of the older version in /bin and /usr/bin as well as having copies in /usr/local/bin and /usr/local.

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Re: Re: perl 5.6.0-5.6.1 upgrade problem
by Bukowski (Deacon) on Aug 07, 2001 at 18:58 UTC 
    mendel:~ $PATH
bash: /usr/bin:/usr/ucb:/etc:/usr/local/bin:/usr/ccs/bin:/root
    I did a 
    find / -name perl
    and /bin/perl /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/perl (-v) all report 5.6.1
    cheers!
    dan
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      OK guys, thanks for all the help. This is probably due to incompetence on my part as an admin (no formal training after all ;)). Certain scripts are running fine with 'strict' and it *appears to be user dependent* - I will persue this now as an admin problem not a perl one.
      This has been a real experience posting here, hope I can put back in at some point
      dan
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      The only other thing I can suggest is downloading the Solaris version appropriate Perl binaries and install via pkgadd. That's how I've installed on my 5 Sun boxes. I had no other problems except the Web Administrator snafu.

      They are available at the Freeware for Solaris site.

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        or if you're going down this route, get the SiePerl distribution of Perl 5.6.1 for Solaris. It comes with the DBI module (amongst others) built.
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