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>From: address@hidden >Organization: St. Cloud State >Keywords: 199903221537.IAA29874 scriptconfig PATH Alan- >Just a short followup on your comments from 3/21 on scriptconfig. > >I recall you made a similar comment to me during our first setup of >ldm a few weeks back; i.e. that scriptconfig is supposed to find perl >on its own. I guess I need to correct myself. scriptconfig will find perl if the directory containing perl is in the user ldm's path. Apparently, /usr/local/bin is not in ldm's path on your system, so it couldn't find perl. >Regarding this latest setup, perl had been installed properly, using >pkgadd, and was in usr/local/bin, as /usr/local/bin/perl. >Why do you think we got the error message when we first ran scriptconfig? >My sense is that it did not find perl on its own, but things worked fine >when I listed the full path name. I stand corrected. >My student did this step initially (run scriptconfig), but I think he was >following the steps in your binary install writeup, as we have printed copies >of these files from your http address. > >At any rate, do you suspect other things have been messed up as a result >of our editing and re-running of scriptconfig? Nope, you did the correct thing for your setup. However, it would probably be a good idea to add /usr/local/bin to ldm's path to find things like gzip and gcc if needed. You should do the same for the user mcidas. Don