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(shockme) Re: Seeking advice to fix an app that I have no control over

by shockme (Chaplain)
on Feb 22, 2002 at 02:53 UTC ( [id://146867]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Seeking advice to fix an app that I have no control over

This is way off topic and in no way related to any questions or issues you raise (hi Ovid!), but....

I recently inherited a WebCT server. It's at least one release out-of-date, and is unequivocally reliant on Perl v5.05. I discovered this when I upgraded Perl to v5.6.1. Within 5 minutes of the upgrade the phone calls (aka complaints) came pouring in. There was much wailing and nashing of teeth. Of course, no one thought to ask me what happened, because I'd only been on the job for about 2 weeks and, of course, couldn't possibly know what the problem might be.

Fortunately, the server runs RedHat, so Perl lives in /usr/bin. I had performed a default v5.6.1 install, so it was in /usr/local/bin. I removed /usr/bin/perl and set up a symbolic link to /usr/local/bin/perl. Correcting the problem was as easy as downloading the v5.05 RPM and reinstalling it.

Now, WebCT uses /usr/bin/perl and everything else on that server points to /usr/local/bin/perl. While I'd like to upgrade WebCT (solely for the purpose of running only one version of Perl), everyone is currently happy and I'm still amazed that no one pinpointed me as the sole point of failure on the whole gig.

Stupid and lucky. That's me.

If things get any worse, I'll have to ask you to stop helping me.

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