FreeBSD Port: p5-Net-Netmask-1.9011

[JJB]

Lars

This morning after an restful sleep I did some detailed research
into the problem of my production scripts that use netmask. The
scripts in question are part of my "Proactive Probing Abuse
Reporting System" which is run as part of the FreeBSD nightly cron
management reports system.  I have other scripts that use netmask so
I ran one of those and it worked, so I knew that the problem was not
4.10 wide. I then added some debug displays to the script in
question and traced the problem back to the file that contains an
list of IP address to be excluded. The last record was an blank. The
person who monitors the  "Proactive Probing Abuse Reporting System"
had added an IP address to the  exclude file and left an blank line
at the end. I corrected the problem in the file and added code to
the script to drop blank lines while reading.

So in conclusion, the netmask problem was my problem and not an
4.10/perl problem.

The other problem with perl -MCPAN -e shell  still looks like an
4.10/perl problem. I will submit an PR on this.

Thanks for your support.



-----Original Message-----
From: Lars Thegler [mailto:lars at thegler.dk]
Sent: Monday, June 07, 2004 5:04 AM
To: Barbish3 at adelphia.net
Cc: lth at FreeBSD.org; ports at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: p5-Net-Netmask-1.9011

JJB wrote:
> I was running 4.9 stable with what ever perl version that comes
with
> it, and had done pkg_add -r  p5-Net-Netmask  and my scripts that
use
> netmask were working just fine. They are stable and have not been
> touched in any way. 6/2/04 I installed 4.10 stable from downloaded
> cdrom1.iso file and redid  pkg_add -r  p5-Net-Netmask,  that is
when
> I reported the original problem about the error message warning.
> After receiving your email that you had fixed the problem I
checked
> and saw the package was not updated so today I installed the port
> version and now I am getting the "could not parse"  message.

Could you specify exactly the circumstances and actual output of
this,
and do a send-pr(1), please. That way we can track the issue much
better.

/Lars