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

[Lee Bengston]

On 3/5/10, Curt, WE7U <curt.we7u at gmail.com> 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 without even marking it as executable...
     sudo perl get-fcc-rac.pl

Lee - K5DAT
Murphy, TX