Batille: Error Could not load the 'Curses.pm' interface module.

[Karl Balsmeier]

I just installed Bastille and ran it for the first time, and got the following error:

root@pegasus:/opt/sec_mgmt/bastille/bin # ./bastille

NOTE: $DISPLAY not set. Attempting Curses interface.

NOTE: Using Curses user interface module.
NOTE: Only displaying questions relevant to the current configuration.

ERROR: Could not load the 'Curses.pm' interface module.
This may be due to an invalid $DISPLAY setting,
or the module not being visible to Perl.

I am running this from command line, how would I go about rendering a fix?

-karlski

[Steven E. Protter]

You probably need to install or reinstall Perl.

Here is a free version HP supports.


Perl which the above needs.
http://www.software.hp.com/cgi-bin/swdepot_parser.cgi/cgi/displayProductInfo.pl?productNumber=PERL


To reinstall just use the command line swinstall -x reinstall=true -s /location_of_depot \*

SEP

[Karl Balsmeier]

My other tools that use perl work fine. : )

-karlski

[Bill Douglass · Accepted solution]

Many perl programs rely on modules which are not part of the standard perl distribution. HP-UX Bastille is one of those.

To tell if a module is available on your system, try the following:

perl -M -e 1

where is the module you are checking on. If you get a error, then you don;t have it in your default perl include path (whcih is displayed as part of the error messages).

If you do have it, it will return nothing.

In your case, try

perl -MCurses -e 1

If it barfs, then you either need to install the module in your current perl distribution (you can get it from CPAN, www.cpan.org) or install the HP-approved Perl depot that was referenced in an earlier message.

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi karlski,

Any reason why you couldn't just set your DISPLAY & run the GUI?

If you're running it locally:
export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0

If you're running remotely:
export DISPLAY=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:0.0
Of course use your workstation IP....

Rgds,
Jeff

[Karl Balsmeier]

I actually installed the exact Perl specified by S. Protter cause he supplied the initial adive about security hardening in another forum question I had about sendmail.

I'll go look for that module on cpan, is there a command line to add it to perl?

I have perl5.6.1.E for 11.0 PA-RISC. : )

-karlski