Problem with RH5.2 & Perl

["Pete Lancashire" <petel pdxengineering com>]

First, if this is the wrong mailing list; Please
let me know which one to use.

I tried the support portion of the RedHat web site
but it is 'being updated'.

All are 'stock' from the 5.2 CD

I added the Net::Ping module to perl. And this
simple program fails.


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#!/usr/bin/perl
use Net::Ping;
$host = "10.0.1.1";
print "$host\n";
$p = Net::Ping->new();
print "$host is alive.\n" if $p->ping($host);
$p->close();
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Running this I get:

Bad arg length for Socket::unpack_sockaddr_in,
length is 0, should be 16 at
/usr/lib/perl5/i386-linux/5.00405/Socket.pm line 275.

Versions:

Net::Ping 2.02
Socket.pm 1.6 (and tried the latest 1.7)
Socket.pm uses
/usr/include/sys/socket.h version unknown (not in header)
but is dated Oct 13 1998


-pete

 
Pete Lancashire

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