Command-Line Perl

[Stephen Kuhn]

On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 08:16, Rich Lichvar wrote:
> I need to either grab a command-line Perl module to go with the
> command-line Bastille script to harden a machine to be used as a
> firewall. Is there one that installs as an RPM from some where on the RH
> 9.0 source?

If you know what perl module you need to install, you can open a term
and invoke the perl CPAN shell with:

perl -MCPAN -e shell

...and then once you're at the cpan prompt, type:

install Whatever::Module

...which will then locate and download the module then compile it for
you. However, if you've not run CPAN before, you'll have to go through
the basic configuration of it once you fire it up the first time. You
need to also be su'd while in the term. It's actually quite easy once
you do it once or twice. Very easy to update all the outdated modules as
well - depending on your connectivity.

HTH

stephen kuhn - owner
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