Making a perl program executable?

[maxsteele]

I have recently started to learn the perl language,

but am having trouble making my programs executable,

I have used the 'chmod' command, but it still isnt working,

so i have to resort to typing 'perl (filename)'

i have made sure that the first line of the code is correct

#! /usr/bin/perl

but still cannot get ti to work

can anyone help me please, thankyou!

oh,by the way im currently running redhat 9, if that makes any difference.:confused:

[Mntsnow]

is this for a "website" aplication? If so you probably need to do a chown www/www to give the webserver permission to run the program.

[a Bill]

chmod +x filename

Then if it doesn't work, do like Mntsnow said, check permissions.

[maxsteele]

thanks guys, it isnt for a 'website application', i shall tell you what it was if you promise not to laugh!

i was saving my programs as filename.pl

but only typing the command 'chmod 755 filename.

god i feel stupid, thanks anyway guys , much appreciated!

[a Bill]

Too late, I'm already laughing :) You made me remember some things I did with perl a while back :D Never, ever trust me with a program I can modify.

[Mntsnow]

Way to go "a bill" :) Don't worry Maxsteele, We'll keep the laughter to a snicker but just remember we only chuckle cause we've been there too ;) Enjoy! and stick around :)

[maxsteele]

cheers guys