[ale] Re: Why it runs from one directory but not the other.

[Greg Sabino Mullane]

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>When I am in my home directory I cannot get my perlscript to run.  It
>locks up trying to access a POP account.  I am running the script by
>giving the full path by the way.
>
>when I cd into public_html or any directory below there and try to run the
>script, I am successful.
>
>Any suggestions why being on one side of the link or the other matters.

Ony thing I can think of is that somewhere inside the script you 
are using a relative path, perhaps with a 'require' or an 'open'. 
For example, if you had something like this:

open(PREFS, "../mailer.prefs") or die "Could not open my pref file: $!\n";

then it would indeed fail everywhere except for inside subdirectories 
of the directory which contained the file "mailer.prefs".

Are there any error messages? It is important to figure out exactly where 
it is failing. Make sure you have are using -w and 'use strict', and 
add some checkpoint debugging statements until you find out where it is 
failing. Then the why should be easy. :)

Greg Sabino Mullane  <greg at turnstep.com>
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