I am trying to install openwebmail on my solaris 10 sparc server.
everytime i tried to run :
.../cgi-bin/openwebmail/openwebmail-tool.pl --init
it just stop there
i read somewhere that i have to update "perl", which i did
and i edited the path of the perl sript at the first line of the openwebmail-tool.pl file.
but still nothing happen.
when i do '#perl openwebmail-tool.pl'
i get these error message:

Bareword found where operator expected at openwebmail-tool.pl line 1, near "/bin/perl"
(Missing operator before perl?)
syntax error at openwebmail-tool.pl line 1, near "/usr/local"
"use" not allowed in expression at openwebmail-tool.pl line 8, at end of line
BEGIN not safe after errors--compilation aborted at openwebmail-tool.pl line 27.

i installed all the requirements they ask for.
is there something i am missing there?
thnx

How and what did you update precisely ?
What did you change here ? Post the first line as perl complains about it, you could post also line 8 and 27.
When you do "perl something", you defeat the first line interpreter path purpose.

hi jlliagre,

How and what did you update precisely ?

well actually all i did is installing the new perl for solaris 10 because i read somewhere in order to fix the problem i am having with the '.pl' files i should try getting the new version of perl, which i did but nothing until now.

What did you change here ? Post the first line as perl complains about it, you could post also line 8 and 27.

well i am suppose to change the first line of the file to the path of my perl ...originally it's '#/usr/bin/suidperl -T', but i do not have suidperl on this directory so i changed it to the directory where my perl is.

do you think i am missing soemthing ?

Please provide details and paste the whole lines in error.

"read somewhere" and "the new version of perl" can hardly give clues about what you did.

oh ok
when i do '#perl openwebmail-tool.pl' i get the message i showed u before:

Bareword found where operator expected at openwebmail-tool.pl line 1, near "/bin/perl"
(Missing operator before perl?)
syntax error at openwebmail-tool.pl line 1, near "/usr/local"
"use" not allowed in expression at openwebmail-tool.pl line 8, at end of line
BEGIN not safe after errors--compilation aborted at openwebmail-tool.pl line 27.

these are the lines with errors apparently:
line 1: "/usr/local/bin/perl"
line 8: "if ( $0 =~ m!^(\S*)/[\w\d\-\.]+\.pl! ) { local $1; $SCRIPT_DIR=$1 }
if ($SCRIPT_DIR eq '' && open(F, '/etc/openwebmail_path.conf')) { "
PS: i do not have this file 'openwebmail_path.conf' ...dont know if i have to create it or it's missing...they didn't specify on the README what to do to have it.

line 27: foreach (qw(ENV BASH_ENV CDPATH IFS TERM)) {delete $ENV{$_}}; $ENV{PATH}='/bin:/usr/bin'; # s
ecure ENV
umask(0002); # make sure the openwebmail group can write
use strict;
use Fcntl qw(EFAULT :flock);
use Net::SMTP;


hope this can help

oh ok i got it alright
i messed up at the first line i should have kept the '#!' in front of the line for it to work properly...