Secure NFS (sNFS) on 4-Stable: has somebody succeeded?

[Oliver Fromme]

Rob <stopspam at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
 > Perl comes with the FreeBSD-4-Stable base system as:
 >    10 -r-xr-xr-x  3 root  wheel  10168 May 11 20:39 /usr/bin/perl
 >    10 -r-xr-xr-x  3 root  wheel  10168 May 11 20:39 /usr/bin/perl5
 >    10 -r-xr-xr-x  3 root  wheel  10168 May 11 20:39 /usr/bin/perl5.00503
 > 
 > Exactly same sizes!! Exactly same file?

The hardlink-counter is 3, so it seems obvious that those
are really exactly the same file (not just the same content).
"ls -li" will confirm that:

zsh$  ls -li /usr/bin/perl{,5*}
31854 -r-xr-xr-x  3 root  wheel  10168 Nov  8  2003 /usr/bin/perl
31854 -r-xr-xr-x  3 root  wheel  10168 Nov  8  2003 /usr/bin/perl5
31854 -r-xr-xr-x  3 root  wheel  10168 Nov  8  2003 /usr/bin/perl5.00503

The inode numbers are the same, so it's really just one
file with three different names.

Another way to verify if files are the same (or have the
same content) is to compare their MD5 checksums:

zsh$  md5 -r /usr/bin/perl{,5*}
70b804a95b2f337a8cbda860be1b041a /usr/bin/perl
70b804a95b2f337a8cbda860be1b041a /usr/bin/perl5
70b804a95b2f337a8cbda860be1b041a /usr/bin/perl5.00503

As far as your actual perl problem is concerned, I'm afraid
I can't help.

 > Is the difference between perl versions 5.005 and 5.006 so essential? Comparing
 > these version numbers, this looks more like a small bug fix to me.

I'm not a perl guru, but have you tried using a newer perl5
from the ports collection?  Does it fail with the same error
message, or does it fail differently?

Regards
   Oliver

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