[Xastir] I got it to work with ubuntu 10.04 but

[Bob Nielsen]

It is also necessary to use sudo on OS X (actually there are ways  
around it for any OS).

Bob N7XY

On Mar 5, 2010, at 10:48 AM, Curt, WE7U wrote:

> On Fri, 5 Mar 2010, Denton K Larson wrote:
>
>> Do you know how to get a perl script to run? get-fcc-rac.pl is  
>> what I am trying to run.
>
> Generally the current directory, known as '.' (a period) is not in
> your default path for security reasons.  So...  If you're sitting at
> the directory where the Perl script resides, you can run it like
> this:
>
>     ./get-fcc-rac.pl
>
> That tells it the path to the file, which is the current directory.
> Of course the script must be marked as executable as well.  Look up
> the "chmod" command to figure out how to set the executable flags.
> "chmod ugo+x" or "chmod 755" out'a do it.  "ls -l" will show you the
> flags.
>
> For this particular script you need to be root to run it, so
> something like this on Ubuntu/Kubuntu:
>
>     sudo ./get-fcc-rac.pl
>
> or this on any other Unix/Linux system:
>
>     su
>     ./get-fcc-rac.pl
>     exit        # (from root)
>
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