topic Re: perl script help needed in Operating System - HP-UX

perl script help needed

zxcv — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 12:51:19 GMT

Hi ,

i have a perl script which we use for ftp , m not able to update the ftplog contents.

Re: perl script help needed

James R. Ferguson — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 15:57:06 GMT

@zxcv wrote:
Hi ,

i have a perl script which we use for ftp , m not able to update the ftplog contents.

And that tells us nothing. I assume that you are running the standard HP-UX 'ftpd' daemon. What release of HP-UX? Do you mean that the 'xferlog' isn't being updated? If not, do you have 'ftpd' configured with '-i in '/etc/inetd.conf'? Do you have an 'ftpaccess' file that overrides that?

Does this logging failure only occur with your Perl script or does a command line FTP fail to log too?

...JRF...

Re: perl script help needed

zxcv — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 05:32:46 GMT

Hi James ,

m gettng problem via script..

wen m startng the script like ;

nohup /usr/bin/perl -w /tmp/test.pl -p -d 2 &

BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /tmp/test.pl line 60.
Use of uninitialized value in subroutine entry at /usr/opt/perl5/lib/5.8.8/aix-thread-multi/XSLoader.pm line 94.
Bad arg length for Socket::inet_ntoa, length is 0, should be 4 at /usr/opt/perl5/lib/5.8.8/aix-thread-multi/XSLoader.pm line 94.
Compilation failed in require at /tmp/test.pl line 60.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /tmp/test.pl line 60....

Re: perl script help needed

Dennis Handly — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 07:20:30 GMT

>compilation aborted at /tmp/test.pl line 60.

It would help if you could show what was on line 60 and print the values of any variables being used there.

Re: perl script help needed

zxcv — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 07:28:07 GMT

60 use Data::Dumper ; # Used only for debugging statements

vim /usr/opt/perl5/lib/5.8.8/aix-thread-multi/XSLoader.pm
92 # See comment block above
93 push(@DynaLoader::dl_shared_objects, $file); # record files loaded
94 return &$xs(@_);
M not able to attache my perl script here ?? why is it so ..

Re: perl script help needed

zxcv — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 09:32:48 GMT

i have found smethng from net ..that usuually its not able to get the hostname....

/usr/opt/perl5/lib/5.8.8/aix-thread-multi/Socket.pm .........

my hostname is testserver...is it greater than 8 char so itss d probm ????? or smthgnelse..

Re: perl script help needed

James R. Ferguson — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 12:06:15 GMT

@zxcv wrote:
Hi
i have found smethng from net ..that usuually its not able to get the hostname....
/usr/opt/perl5/lib/5.8.8/aix-thread-multi/Socket.pm .........
my hostname is testserver...is it greater than 8 char so itss d probm ????? or smthgnelse..

Hi:

So, you're running on AIX not HP-UX. Yes, I suspect that hostnames longer than the classic 8-character limit are a problem. Why not test on a host whose name is =< 8 ?

Actually *posting* the entire script would be more informative then piece-meal, vague descriptions of behavior and observations :-)

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: perl script help needed

zxcv — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 05:10:53 GMT

Hi ,
M not able to attach my perl script here ?? why is it so

Re: perl script help needed

Dennis Handly — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 09:00:13 GMT

>M not able to attach my perl script here? why is it so

(It would be helpful if you didn't use texting shortcuts, used spell check and fairly complete sentences. And proper capitalization would be a plus. :-)

You can go back and edit your posts.

Perhaps you don't have the right suffix, try .txt.

Re: perl script help needed

zxcv — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 15:17:45 GMT

Hi , let me chk ..

Re: perl script help needed

James R. Ferguson — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 16:13:21 GMT

Hi (again):

Let me underscore what I said, before:

@James R. Ferguson wrote:
@zxcv wrote:
i have found smethng from net ..that usuually its not able to get the hostname....
/usr/opt/perl5/lib/5.8.8/aix-thread-multi/Socket.pm .........
my hostname is testserver...is it greater than 8 char so itss d probm ????? or smthgnels
So, you're running on AIX not HP-UX. Yes, I suspect that hostnames longer than the classic 8-character limit are a problem. Why not test on a host whose name is =< 8 ?

You're clearly running the script on AIX, not HP-UX. That said, I strongly suspect, given the relative age of the Perl version (5.8.8) that the C-library support for hostnames longer than the classic 8-character limit is supported. You previously showed us:

BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /tmp/test.pl line 60.
Use of uninitialized value in subroutine entry at /usr/opt/perl5/lib/5.8.8/aix-thread-multi/XSLoader.pm line 94.
Bad arg length for Socket::inet_ntoa, length is 0, should be 4 at /usr/opt/perl5/lib/5.8.8/aix-thread-multi/XSLoader.pm line 94.
Compilation failed in require at /tmp/test.pl line 60.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /tmp/test.pl line 60....

...which points to the 'Socket' module not "playing nicely" with what the the dynamic library loader 'XSLoader' loaded.

My suggestions are two: (1) Verify that everything works with a hostname that is <= 8-characters (which I'm sure it will); and (2) consider upgrading to a current Perl version and/or contact IBM support to ascertain how/if they support hostnames in excess of 8-characters.

Regards!

...JRF...