in reply to Re: Module Installation Troubles
in thread Module Installation Troubles

AH!!! the auto directory looked like this:
drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 512 Oct 9 18:05 . drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 512 Oct 9 18:03 .. drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 512 Oct 4 11:15 DBD drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 512 Sep 1 11:41 DBI drwx------ 3 root root 512 Oct 4 10:43 Data drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 512 Oct 9 17:46 Digest drwx------ 4 root root 512 Oct 9 18:03 HTML drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 512 Oct 9 17:42 MIME drwx------ 2 root root 512 Oct 4 11:15 Msql-Mysql-modul +es drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 512 Oct 9 18:10 Net drwx------ 2 root root 512 Oct 9 17:49 URI drwx------ 2 root root 512 Oct 9 18:05 libwww-perl
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child: "But, I've looked everywhere!!!"
parent "Obviously not..."

It is probably not worth asking why the make installer would cause that, is it?

Thanks.

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Re: Re: Re: Module Installation Troubles
by runrig (Abbot) on Oct 11, 2001 at 21:00 UTC
    This is an example of why you should not install as root.