Perls of wisdom?

[Julian Field]

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Have you got 2 copies of Perl installed somehow? Check
/usr/bin/perl -v
versus
/usr/local/bin/perl -v

That's the most likely cause.

Greg Borders wrote:
> Performed my upgrade from last stable Feb. release 4.50.14-1 to the 
> new 4.51.5-1 last night on my Redhat Ent. 4 box.
> Got some odd perl program missing in INC path errors.
> For some reason my install has some programs in a path that doesn't 
> match my current version.  Perhaps the install.sh put some things in 
> the wrong places?
> I'm running
>
> [root at mail /]# perl -v
> This is perl, v5.8.5 built for i386-linux-thread-multi
>
> yet there are some files located in a 5.8.6 folder.....
>
>
> [root at mail /]# slocate 5.8.6
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6/Mail
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6/Mail/Mailer
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6/Mail/Mailer/smtp.pm
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6/Mail/Mailer/qmail.pm
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6/Mail/Mailer/rfc822.pm
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6/Mail/Mailer/testfile.pm
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6/Mail/Mailer/sendmail.pm
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6/Mail/Filter.pm
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6/Mail/Field.pm
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6/Mail/Send.pm
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6/Mail/Address.pm
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6/Mail/Field
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6/Mail/Field/Date.pm
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6/Mail/Field/AddrList.pm
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6/Mail/Header.pm
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6/Mail/Cap.pm
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6/Mail/Mailer.pm
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6/Mail/Internet.pm
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6/Mail/Util.pm
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6/auto
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6/auto/Mail
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6/auto/Mail/Internet
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6/auto/Mail/Internet/_prephdr.al
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6/auto/Mail/Internet/smtpsend.al
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6/auto/Mail/Internet/nntppost.al
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6/auto/Mail/Internet/reply.al
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6/auto/Mail/Internet/unescape_from.al
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6/auto/Mail/Internet/send.al
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6/auto/Mail/Internet/autosplit.ix
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6/auto/Mail/Internet/sign.al
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6/auto/Mail/Internet/add_signature.al
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6/auto/Mail/Internet/escape_from.al
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6/auto/Mail/Util
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6/auto/Mail/Util/read_mbox.al
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6/auto/Mail/Util/autosplit.ix
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6/auto/Mail/Util/maildomain.al
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6/auto/Mail/Util/mailaddress.al
>
> I copied over the ones it wanted/complained were missing from the 
> path, from the 5.8.6 to the 5.8.5 folder; and it's working fine now, 
> but my question is where did this 5.8.6 folder come from?
> Any ideas folks?

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