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Jan 3, 2001, 10:57 AM
sickboy
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admin.cgi error
I am having some problems installing the script on our server. When I run admin.cgi I get this error.

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Error including libraries: syntax error in file /usr/home/design/www/cgi-bin/links/admin/links.cfg at line 153, next 2 tokens "my $date "
Illegal modulus of constant zero in file /usr/home/design/www/cgi-bin/links/admin/links.cfg at line 154, next 2 tokens "months ="
syntax error in file /usr/home/design/www/cgi-bin/links/admin/links.cfg at line 154, next 2 tokens "map {"
syntax error in file /usr/home/design/www/cgi-bin/links/admin/links.cfg at line 154, next 2 tokens "qw!"

Make sure they exist, permissions are set properly, and paths are set correctly.
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but the paths and permissions are set... I also edited the path on line 45 in admin.cgi to point to links.cfg

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require "/usr/home/design/www/cgi-bin/links/admin/links.cfg"; # Change this to full path to links.cfg if you have problems.
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My server info is viewable @
http://www.bgdi.com/cgi-bin/diver/perldiver.cgi

URL of the problem page:
http://www.bgdi.com/cgi-bin/links/admin/admin.cgi

Any help would be greatly appreciated, Thanks
- Mike

Jan 3, 2001, 7:35 PM
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Your problem is your Perl version...you must have Perl 5.0053 to run Links successfully.

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Eliot Lee
Jan 4, 2001, 5:17 AM
Andy
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It sounds like a problem i have had on Hypermart servers. Are you on Hypermart.net?

Andy

Jan 4, 2001, 8:53 AM
sickboy
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Thanks AnthroRules, looks like that's most likely the problem. I'll send an e-mail over to my ISP, looks like they're running 5.00401, hopefully they can upgrade it.

youradds - actually my ISP is lanminds in Berkley.

Jan 9, 2001, 7:23 PM
Bravo466
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My server is running 5.6.0 is that version of PERL ok for the script to run in?

thanks
-harris

Jan 9, 2001, 8:27 PM
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You will probably come across problems with the date functions in LINKS 2.0, like many other LINKS 2.0 users who have experienced problems using the upgraded Time::Local Perl module.

All Gossamer Threads have been written for Perl 5.0053, not Perl 5.006

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Eliot Lee
Mar 15, 2001, 6:53 PM
dprophit
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Okay hypermart does have Time::Local installed. I checked this out. My problem is on line 184

code snip:
Code:
my $date = shift; my $i;
my %months = map { $_ => $i++ } qw!Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec!;
my ($day, $mon, $year) = split(/-/, );
exists $months{$mon} or return undef;
$day = int($day); $year = $year - 1900;
require Time::Local;
my = 0;
eval {
$time = &Time::Local::timelocal(0,0,0, $day, $months{$mon}, $year);
};
if ($@) { die "invalid date format: $date - parsed as (day: $day, month: $months{$mon},
year: ). Reason: $@"; }
return $time;
}
it's causing a syntax error on my = 0;