Hello, I have 2 questions that I need help with please. I will admit that I am relatively new to perl.

I am using perl on a linux red-hat machine, I am renting space on the webserver so I only have telnet access to the machine.

1) how do I install perl modules on this machine (I can install them on my pc, but I only have telnet and ftp to the webserver, and not root privelege)?

2) when I try to execute perl scripts without using the format 'perl $0' I get I get a 'command not found' message. I know that I need to set an environment variable in my .bashrc file so that it knows what to do with .pl files, but I don't know the command/format. Please help.

thanx!
-Kevin

In reply to perl and linux by Anonymous Monk

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