in reply to can't get to CPAN prompt

The most probable reason is that your last CPAN session crashed. Did you try to remove /Users/ronballesteros/.cpan/.lock and see what happens? The weird hostname might be a result of your computer being connected to the Internet or to a company server whose DNS gives out nice names to you :)

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Re: Re: can't get to CPAN prompt
by macaroni (Initiate) on Apr 15, 2003 at 23:46 UTC
    I removed the file as suggested and i was able to get my CPAN prompt but this time i wanted to install Bundle::libnet (which I think i need to use Net::FTP). When I tried running the force install Bundle::libnet, i got an error of Running install for module Data::Dumper Running make for G/GS/GSAR/Data-Dumper-2.101.tar.gz mkdir /Users/ronballesteros/.cpan/sources/authors/id/G/GS: Permission denied at /System/Library/Perl/CPAN.pm line 2303 What do I need to do to resolve these permission problems....
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      You need to install the modules as root (or some other user who has permissions to write to the /System/Library/Perl directory). You can do this by either using su at the command line and typing in root's password, or using sudo (in this case, probably sudo perl -MCPAN -e shell;). You can read more about both commands by using man su and man sudo.

      Nota Bene: To use sudo you might need to be in the /etc/sudoers file. If this is the case, you'll need to be root to add yourself to it.

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      Only root has write access to the System directory on OS X. Either configure CPAN to install the modules inside your home directory (using PREFIX) or use

      sudo perl -MCPAN -e shell

      to install as root, inside the System directory.

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      In order to be on the sudoers list, open System Preferences, and click on Accounts. Then edit your user, after authentication, so that you 'Can administer this computer' or something like that. If you want life easy, you can sudo pico /etc/csh.login, and add the line 
      alias cpan sudo perl -MCPAN -e shell

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      somewhere in the file. Another tip is to also add 
      alias ll ls -l

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      Which will allow you to view long file lists more easily. But i'm drifting off topic.

      If you ever find yourself in need of these aliases, and they are not available, you may need to type tcsh -l to get your shell to read the .login file.

      Best of luck!

      -nuffin
      zz zZ Z Z #!perl
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        After doing all your great suggestions I was able to get my CPAN prompt and install Net::FTP. Thinking that everything was ok, I then ran my script that uses Net::FTP and for some reason my script just sits there, doing nothing..... I have verified that the machine that I'm contacting does allow FTP access and even ran my script on a different machine and it worked fine. However on this machine that I've been working on, it just for some reason just sits there? I can't figure out what is wrong: Below is a snippet of my code: I realize that there is a much better way of doing what my script does of gettting a list of files but for the life of me I can't seem to figure out what is wrong? It just sits there.... 
        #!/usr/bin/perl

use Net::FTP;

@arrayOfFiles = qw/ testfile1.txt testfile2.txt testfile3.txt testfile
+4.txt /;


$ftp = Net::FTP->new("XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX", Debug => 0) or die "Could not 
+connect: $@\n";
$ftp->login("Macaroni","password");
$ftp->cwd("Desktop/DownloadableFiles");
$ftp->ascii();
foreach $getthisfile (@arrayOfFiles) {
print $getthisfile;
$ftp->get("$getthisfile");
}
$ftp->quit;

system("cat @arrayOfFiles > catfiles.txt");

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