In reply to some comments above:

• chipmunk - nail head hit on you have - "whereis perl" pointed out the obvious
• andreychek/BikeNomad - thank you - all valid and interesting points

Funny how sometimes you can run around in circles looking for hard answers when you should be asking easy questions.

Thanks all.

cLive ;-)

PS - Oh, FYI, it was a fresh Mandrake 8.0 install. This also has a screwy Apache httpd.conf editor GUI interface in it (puts directives in before associated modules are loaded) - but otherwise, lovely :)