On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 12:42:32PM -0500, Dan Drake wrote: > I don't know Perl or CPAN usage very well, and I'm trying to install > the grepmail [1] program. This is on my work computer and I don't have > root access, so I'm trying to use CPAN to handle the dependencies for > me in a reasonable way. > > I have the installation started, but I keep getting this message: > > *** Installing dependencies... > *** You are not allowed to write to the directory > '/var/tmp/cpan-drake/sources'; the installation may fail due to > insufficient permissions. > > But the directory it complains about is 755 with me as owner: > > drwxr-xr-x 4 drake math 4096 Aug 21 12:16 /var/tmp/cpan-drake/sources/ > > Because of this problem, the installation fails. How can I fix this? > Thanks. Sounds like it's not a CPAN problem at all, but a permissions problem. I just downloaded the latest grepmail from CPAN and installed in ~/grepmail/; can you do the same? -- trammell at el-swifto.com 9EC7 BC6D E688 A184 9F58 FD4C 2C12 CC14 8ABA 36F5 Twin Cities Linux Users Group (TCLUG) Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota