in reply to Re^4: Problem installing CPAN modules
in thread Problem installing CPAN modules

You're starting another sudo shell within your first sudo shell. Each new shell starts with the fresh values. Within the first sudo shell, all commands (without sudo prepended) should work now.

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Re^6: Problem installing CPAN modules
by daverave (Scribe) on Jun 28, 2010 at 09:30 UTC
    First, thanks for your patience!

    Second, it still does not work. The fetching still lingers forever. It is the same for simple wget for some arbitrary site. as said before, surfing with firefox works perfectly. Could it be related to the passive thread I mentioned in the original post?

      As passive_ftp only relates to ftp, but you're only showing HTTP URLs, I doubt that this relates.

        So are we out of ideas? Oh dear... Trying to add extra info: I can ftp remote servers from shell...