Freeside Problems

[Andrew Cameron]

Hi,

I have managed to get past the Illegal Line by Installing Perl 5.00503
Without the threads option.

It is working now.

I will now test the system and see how it works

Andrew

On Tue, 4 May 1999, Andrew Cameron wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> Conf::config is being called from UID.pm Line 224.
> 
> I have hardcoded my datasource, username, password into this script and
> then I get passed that.
> 
> I then hit 
> SOFTWARE ERROR
> Illegal line in /usr/local/etc/freeside//conf.DBI:mysql:freeside/shells
> /bin/csh /bin/sh /bin/bash 
> 
> 
> This indicates the the problem is DEFINETLY related to the Newer versions
> of perl. 
> 
> Is anyone Successfully using Freeside with Perl version 5.005 or Greater?
> 
> Conf.pm needs to be modified to work under perl5.00502 but I do not know
> how to do it.
> 
> Regards
> Andrew
> 
> On Tue, 4 May 1999, Joel Griffiths wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 04 May 1999, you wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > Have you managed to resolve the problems you have been having. 
> > No. I haven't had time to work on it. I imagine the problem is pretty simple to
> > solve though. I just need to find a little time to work on it.
> > 
> > > I have the same version of perl that you have and I get the SAME error
> > > messages.
> > It's nice to know I wasn't imagining anything. If you know Perl, I am pretty
> > certain that the problem lies in the Conf.pm file. I will have a look at the
> > scripts this week to see if I can find the exact problem.
> > 
> > >From what I have had time to do, it appears that the config subroutine of
> > Conf::config returns the entire file despite carriage returns (as defined by
> > Perl) and Freeside is really expecting it to return some sort of seperation. I
> > think I need to find where the call to Conf::config is coming from before I can
> > do anything. Like I said, I hope to have some time this week to look at it.
> > 
> > > This indicates to me that the scripts are
> > not compatible with the > version of perl we are using. >  > Regards
> > That's what I thought.
> > 
> > 
> > > Andrew
> > > 
> > > --
> > > -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > 
> > > Andrew Cameron
> > > Internet:  andrew at ibi.co.za
> > > Internet:  apcameron at intch.co.za
> > > 
> > > -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > 
> 
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> 
> Andrew Cameron
> Internet:  andrew at ibi.co.za
> Internet:  apcameron at intch.co.za
> 
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Andrew Cameron
Internet:  andrew at ibi.co.za
Internet:  apcameron at intch.co.za

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