SID-00781: Solaris 10 Perl Modules for root not for webservd

Status:	Answered	TWiki version:	4.3.2	Perl version:	5.8.4
Category:	CategoryInstallation	Server OS:	Solaris 10	Last update:	15 years ago

I have been following the instructions found at: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/SolarisInstallCookbook and http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/SolarisInstallCookbookPerlModules

I have download the most recent copy of twiki. 4.3.2. I have used the Blastwave instructions of the Solaris Install Cookbook.

I made what I thought was a minor change by taking option 1 instead of option 2 on the PerlModules Cookbook: "During install you need to decide if you want to install CPAN modules into the standard system-wide location or to special location. " I chose to install to the standard system-wide location using CPAN and perlgcc.

If I am logged in as root and I run /usr/perl5/bin/instmodsh I see all the perl modules I have installed.

If I "su - webservd", and run /usr/perl5/bin/instmodsh I see a limited set of perl modules.

Of course, Twiki is annoyed at not having the Perl modules it expects. I have checked the CGI information in the twiki configuration and it describes all of the /usr/perl5/... sub-directories as being in the @INC path. However is does not seem to see the modules. Error: HTML::Parser not found....

Short of re-installing Solaris 10 and setting the PERL5LIB to /apps/twiki-root/perlmodules, is there something I missed along the way?

I have checked the permissions on the /usr/perl5 sub-directories and they are all world readable.

My last thought is to "chown -R webservd:webservd /usr/perl5" .. stupid, I know, but I'm getting desparate.

I even tried running the web server as root for a single attempt, but it was too smart for that.. it won't do it without a re-compile.

I would like to have the perl modules enabled for all of my work on this web server.

Thank you, Peter

-- PeterRyan - 2010-03-15

Discussion and Answer

Hi,

I found an answer at: http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=828794

The trick was to force the /usr/perl5 sub-directories to be world readable and executable. I always forget that a+rx rather than a+r. It always seems wrong to force an entire tree to be executable.

So -- if you use the Solaris 10 Cookbook and do the general install instead of the specific PERL5LIB install, finish up by forcing the sub-directories using:

chmod -R a+rx /usr/perl5

Thanks, Peter

-- PeterRyan - 2010-03-16

Thanks for sharing. Please update the cookbook so that the community can benefit.

-- PeterThoeny - 2010-03-16

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