Re: redhat 5.2 woes

["Walt Lillyman, NTBO, Inc.: http://www.ntbo.com" <waltl@ntbo.com>]

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> Use of uninitialized value at /usr/lib/perl5/Text/ParseWords.pm line 73

I've been ignoring this warning for months.
If that's your only problem, blink your eyes as it scrolls by!
Sounds like you keep getting errs after that, tho.
Walt;

At 03:31 AM 3/8/99 -0600, Mi-Recordz wrote:
>******    message to minivend-users from Mi-Recordz <mi-r@mi-recordz.com>    
> ******
>
>Micheal,
>
>You probably know more about it than I do but here's what I posted a few 
>days ago.
>
>Here's a summary of what it took to get MiniVend3.11 working on my Red
>Hat 5.2 system.
>
>Red Hat 5.2, Perl-5.004m7-1 and MiniVend 3.11. I had problems with
>Minivend and the Version of Perl that came with my RH5.2 distro:
>
>Use of uninitialized value at /usr/lib/perl5/Text/ParseWords.pm line 73,
>
><GLOBAL
>> chunk 280.
>snip
>snip
>
>Numerous references to wrong or buggy versions of Perl tipped me off and
>
>without a great deal of thought I upgraded to perl-5.004m7-1.i386.rpm (I
>
>think this is a developer version, not sure...) and ran "rpm -uvh
>perl-5.004m7-1.i386.rpm". The "-u" is an upgrade switch. The perl
>5.005... requires the newer glibc, I forget the version number. I didn't
>
>want to deal with upgrading glibc so that's how I came to
>Perl-5.004m7-1.  I wouldn't be surprised if there's a better version to
>have chosen.
>
>Then of course after a few "Not Found...." messages I decided to set up
>ScriptAlias in my <VirtualHost></VirtualHost>
>Apache virtual host:
>
><VirtualHost mi-recordz.com>
>ServerAdmin rtp@mi-recordz.com
>DocumentRoot /home/mi-r/www/html
>ScriptAlias /cgi-bin /home/mi-r/www/cgi-bin
>ServerName www.mi-recordz.com
>ErrorLog logs/mi-recordz.com-error_log
>TransferLog logs/mi-recordz.com-access_log
></VirtualHost>
>
>Michael Bloom wrote:
>
>> ******    message to minivend-users from Michael Bloom <mike@gomi.com>     
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>>
>> Hello All,
>>
>> I'm a recent initate to minivend, but I have a bit of cgi and apache
>> experience as well as perl. I just wasted days trying to upgrade this
>> platform (redhat 5.2) to a version of perl that doesn't cause the
>> installer / runtimes to break.  I'm asking for anyone who has a more
>> detailed master plan for dealing with redhat than minivend has posted on
>> their site to come forward.
>>  I am running perl 5.004_004 and have tried several more recent
>> versions. I have run the upgrade script that used to be on the minivend
>> site that automates moving from the glibc broken redhat perl build to a
>> 'clean' one that should work. It didn't.
>>
>> I built everything on freebsd box in less than an hour ... but redhat ..
>> not so easy. Any Ideas?
>>
>> Michael Bloom
>>
>> Gomi Media

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