Actually, to follow up on my own post, someone from the #perl IRC said I should just export FTP_PASSIVE=1 before firing up perl -MCPAN, which seems to work like a charm.... R _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list