I'm on Fedora 20. perl-5.18.2-289.fc20.x86_64 As a user: 

$ perl -e 'use strict; print "ok"'
Can't locate strict.pm:   Permission denied at -e line 1.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at -e line 1.

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But: 

$ ls -l /usr/share/perl5/strict.pm
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 3933 Jan  7 09:48 /usr/share/perl5/strict.pm

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and 

$ perl -e 'print join "\n", @INC'
/root/perl5/lib/perl5/x86_64-linux-thread-multi
/root/perl5/lib/perl5
/usr/local/lib64/perl5
/usr/local/share/perl5
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl
/usr/lib64/perl5
/usr/share/perl5

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and the user can read strict.pm: 

$ cat /usr/share/perl5/strict.pm
package strict;

$strict::VERSION = "1.07";
...............

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As root this all works.

strict.pm is in @INC, and the user has read permission. There's not another strict.pm on the machine: 

# locate strict.pm
/usr/share/perl5/strict.pm
#

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What am I doing wrong?

FWIW, 

$ perl -V
Can't locate Config.pm:   Permission denied.

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sean

In reply to perl lost its modules! by seandarcy

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