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Subject: Re: #! Not Working On Install
From: "John P. Rouillard" <rouilj @ cs . umb . edu>
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 1995 20:46:10 -0500
To: dwalker @ oda . state . or . us (Doug Walker)
Cc: majordomo-users @ greatcircle . com
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 28 Mar 1995 16:48:05 PST." <v02110121ab9e5c9265c6@[192.152.7.48]>


Oh boy, there are still boxes out there that don't do #! magic number
8-(. That son of a deity whose names begins with J! Ok, here's the
hack directly from the perl (dromedary) book:

#! /usr/bin/perl
eval "exec /usr/bin/perl -S $0 $*"
	if $running_under_some_shell;

See if that works for you. Obviously you will need to change
/usr/bin/perl to /xbin/perl. If it doesn't work there's an even
grodier hack that will for for both sh and csh, but lets see if the
simple one will do the trick.

 Also I would hang onto this trick if I were you I am NOT planning on
putting it into the mainline distribution 8-).

Anybody else have a problem like this and have another way around it?


In message <v02110121ab9e5c9265c6@[192.152.7.48]>,
Doug Walker writes:

>I am trying to install Majordomo 1.93 on a Motorola Delta Model 3840 (68040
>processor) running Motorola's Unix SYS V68 R3V7 FE03.71 RM03.  We are
>running sendmail version 5.65c/1.34 and perl 4.036.
>
>The problem I've run into is that:
>
>        #!/xbin/perl
>
>at the top of each perl script in the Majordomo package is ignored by both
>sh and ksh.

				-- John
John Rouillard

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