I have a Perl program running on RedHat Linux that runs just find from the command-line as root, but throws an error from the commaind-line as a user, like so: 
[gblackburn]$ perl program.pl
DBI object version 1.32 does not match $DBI::VERSION 1.37 at /usr/lib/
+perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/DynaLoader.pm line 249.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i3
+86-linux-thread-multi/DBI.pm line 255.
Compilation failed in require at program.pl line 5.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at program.pl line 5.

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So it looks like it's trying to use the Perl 5.6.1 DBI binary instead of the Perl 5.8.0 binary. But like I said it runs fine as root, so I checked which perl and both the user and root respond with /usr/bin/perl. Then I checked @INC for both, and they are identical.

The PATH variables for root and user are somewhat different (of course) but if the path-to-perl is the same, and the @INC is the same, shouldn't the same modules be called in both cases? I'm clearly missing something dumb. Thanks!

Gary Blackburn
Trained Killer

In reply to Module loads ok for root, not ok for user by Trimbach

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