According to Peter Edward Voss: > >Has anyone else run into similar problems with perl5 >on Solaris, Not with perl5, but in perl4 the numbers for the socket stuff was wrong because Sun in their infinite wisdom changed the defines for the socket types. > and if so could someone enlighten me with >the necessary patch ? > update socket.ph so it looks like this: eval 'sub SOCK_STREAM {2;}'; eval 'sub SOCK_DGRAM {1;}'; eval 'sub SOCK_RAW {4;}'; eval 'sub SOCK_RDM {5;}'; eval 'sub SOCK_SEQPACKET {6;}'; This worked for me with 4.036 on Solaris. -- Brett Lymn, Computer Systems Administrator, AWA Defence Industries =============================================================================== "It's fifteen hundred miles to Ankh-Morpork" he said. "We've got three hundred and sixty three elephants, fifty carts of forage, the monsoon's about to break and we're wearing ... we're wearing ... sort of things, like glass, only dark... dark glass things on our eyes..." - Terry Pratchett "Moving Pictures".