Good Afternoon All,

I am hosting my Web site with Yahoo! small business services. I need to get a few Perl modules installed that use compiled C code. I don't have shell access, however, so I'm having a real hard time. I tried the suggestion at 1. The problem is that Yahoo! has done things to cripple Perl-based CGI scripts, preventing that tact from working.

Since that didn't work, I tried to figure out what OS and hardware architecture the Web server is running with the hopes that I could find a pre-compiled binary version of the Perl modules I need. To this end, I ran this script on the server:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use POSIX "uname";
use strict;

my ($sysname, $nodename, $release, $version, $machine ) = uname;

print "Content-type: text/plain\n\n";

print "System = $sysname\n";
print "Hostname = $nodename\n";
print "OS Release = $release\n";
print "OS Version = $version\n";
print "Machine Type = $machine\n";
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(Using `uname -a` didn't work for similar reasons as above.) This produced the following output:

System = FreeBSD
Hostname = travisspencer.com
OS Release = 4.11-YAHOO-20061130
OS Version = FreeBSD 4.11-YAHOO-20061130 #0:
Machine Type = i386
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From this, I figured that Yahoo! was running FreeBSD 4.11 on an i386 machine. So, I went to http://ftp2.tsinghua.edu.cn/pub/mirror/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4.11-release/Latest/ and downloaded the necessary modules. I unpacked and uploaded the contents, but when I tried to import the module, I got this error:

Can't load '/blog-mt/extlib/auto/Digest/SHA1/SHA1.so' for module
Digest::SHA1: Cannot execute objects on /p12/m/b28
 at /foo/test.cgi line 5
Compilation failed in require at /foo/test.cgi line 5.
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So, the dynamically loaded library can't be imported it seems but the Perl module I uploaded is found in my search path.

Any ideas on how I might get this working?

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Regards,

Travis Spencer

1 http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=422458