Problem with Perl and Fedora Core 1

[Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha]

On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 02:15:57PM -0600, Dave Mendez wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>  
> I have been using RH Linux on our network for over 7 years now and we
> have been testing out Fedora Core 1 on a machine and have been pleased
> so far.  However we have run into a problem that I think is related to
> Fedora since we never have had the problem in the Red Hat distros.  The
> problem we are having is with Perl 5.8.1.  For the most part Perl works
> fine but a lot of our programs in perl use the command "exec" in the
> script.  For example here is a line of code from a program called
> usersearch.pl:
>  
> if ($status == 1)
> {
>             print "Name Found\n";
> }
> else
> {
>             exec "namelookup.pl"
> }

What about exec "./namelookup.pl"? It could be a problem with your PATH.

Regards,
Luciano Rocha