[rt-users] CGI::Vars

[Jesse]

I think the "right" thing to do is just install a new version of CGI.pm
from cpan. it's pretty easy. Just type the following and let perl do all the work...


perl -MCPAN -eshell
install CGI




On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 12:07:59PM -0400, Neil Curri wrote:
> Jesse wrote:
> > 
> > It actually sounds to me like something reverted your CGI.pm to an older version.
> 
> Yeah, I have 2 copies of CGI.pm. The one that I think webrt.cgi must be
> calling is in /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/, it's at version 2.46. The other
> CGI.pm - version 2.62 - is in a subdirectory of /tmp, along with some
> other modules (but they're all grouped under the directory called
> "CGI.pm-2.62", so I assume they all have to do with CGI.pm). A search
> for "CGI.pm" yielded:
> 
> /tmp/.cpan/build/CGI.pm-2.62
> /tmp/.cpan/build/CGI.pm-2.62/examples
> /tmp/.cpan/build/CGI.pm-2.62/examples/WORLD_WRITABLE
> /tmp/.cpan/build/CGI.pm-2.62/CGI
> /tmp/.cpan/build/CGI.pm-2.62/t
> /tmp/.cpan/build/CGI.pm-2.62/blib
> /tmp/.cpan/build/CGI.pm-2.62/blib/lib
> /tmp/.cpan/build/CGI.pm-2.62/blib/lib/auto
> /tmp/.cpan/build/CGI.pm-2.62/blib/lib/auto/CGI
> /tmp/.cpan/build/CGI.pm-2.62/blib/lib/CGI
> /tmp/.cpan/build/CGI.pm-2.62/blib/lib/CGI/Util.pm
> /tmp/.cpan/build/CGI.pm-2.62/blib/lib/CGI/Carp.pm
> /tmp/.cpan/build/CGI.pm-2.62/blib/lib/CGI/Fast.pm
> /tmp/.cpan/build/CGI.pm-2.62/blib/lib/CGI/Push.pm
> /tmp/.cpan/build/CGI.pm-2.62/blib/lib/CGI/Pretty.pm
> /tmp/.cpan/build/CGI.pm-2.62/blib/lib/CGI/Cookie.pm
> /tmp/.cpan/build/CGI.pm-2.62/blib/lib/CGI/Apache.pm
> /tmp/.cpan/build/CGI.pm-2.62/blib/lib/CGI/Switch.pm
> /tmp/.cpan/build/CGI.pm-2.62/blib/lib/CGI.pm
> /tmp/.cpan/build/CGI.pm-2.62/blib/arch
> /tmp/.cpan/build/CGI.pm-2.62/blib/arch/auto
> /tmp/.cpan/build/CGI.pm-2.62/blib/arch/auto/CGI
> /tmp/.cpan/build/CGI.pm-2.62/blib/man3
> /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/CGI.pm
> 
> Each one of these modules - util.pm, Carp.pm, Fast.pm, etc... - have a
> corresponding partner in /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/, and each module in the
> /tmp directory is a more recent version than the ones in
> /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503. So, just in the way of getting RT back up, could
> I just move these newer modules into their respective places in
> /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/?
> 
> The modification dates of these files (including the 2.62 CGI.pm) go
> only as late as March of this year. Hmm, I was thinking redhat's update
> script be the culprit, but if it were, and these were recent updates, I
> would expect that the "newer" CGI.pm would be at the current version
> (2.66, I believe), and the modification dates would read yesterday, not
> march. My only other guess is that Arkeia (backup software that someone
> else installed yesterday) uses perl, and might have done something while
> it was checking for perl libraries? Guess I'm on my own there.
> 
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