Perl5.8.0

[Stanley Hopcroft]

Dear Sir,

I am writing to thank you for your letter and say,

On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 06:56:39PM +0200, Lionel.Ostric at arm.com wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
>       I'm trying to get Nagios working on a Redhat 8 with the embeded perl
> interpreter.

that unfortunately you are out of luck. 

Nag needs patching for embbedded Perl Nagios on hosts that have Perl 
5.8.0 built with thread support (which probably means most vendors other 
than the FreeBSD Perl port).

Patches exist and have been tested but have yet to be integrated.

(Reply to me privately if you want them).

> 
>       I would like to know if a solution (other than installing perl 5.6.1
> which is painful)

This may not be to bad _unless_ you have a lot of Perl apps on the 
Nag host.

It may indeed be nothing because on this system Perl (5.8.0), @INC has 
been modified to use both new and old Perl.

>From Perl -V

  @INC:
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/mach
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.0/BSDPAN
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.0/mach
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.0
    .

(In other words, the old Perl [5.005] modules paths are being searched).

However, if you have other Perl apps (RT, HTML::Mason, ..) I would
proceed carefully.

> has been found to make nagios work with perl 5.8....

Your options are

 . Perl 5.8.0 without threading

 . Perl 5.6.1 (with or without thread support) or 5.005_03 (no choice 
about threads).

 . no ePN

> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> 
> 

-- 
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Stanley Hopcroft
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'...No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the
continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a
manor of thy friend's or of thine own were. Any man's death diminishes
me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know
for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee...'

from Meditation 17, J Donne.


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