Hello Jochen,

I didn't see a way to respond to your message from the website, so this resp onse may start a new thread. . . .

As far as I know the system clock is fine. It has always shown the correct date and time. I don't know of any particular method to check for this.

Basically, I have the same question as you - why did the password show up in the "# perl Makefile.PL" and then disappear in the "# make"???

I don't understand how the perl process works (I've never studied it, I'm ju st following the instructions in the documentation): # perl Makefile.PL # make # make test # make install

I was hoping the answer/solution would be simple (e.g. specify an additional switch). Your saying "I have no idea why" indicates that there's something unusual and wrong in a basic process/mechanism, which is bad news for me. Any other ideas for things I can try? Do you know of any way to force the p assword in the "# make" (by editing a file, or interrupting the "# make" pro cess and forcing a value, using a switch, or otherwise getting inside the "# make" process)?

Can you tell me what "(Using password: NO)" means - does it mean that a pass word was not specified? Does "(Using password: YES)" mean that a password w as specified? Other???

Also, is there some documentation that describes how this whole process work s (what each step is doing)?

I will note one further thing. As I wrote in my original message, I did the following: Download and install DBI-1.42.tar.gz # tar xvfz DBI-1.42.tar.gz # cd DBI-1.42 # perl Makefile.PL # make # make install

So this process worked successfully for installing DBI-1.42 (although no pas sword was involved). Then (as the next step in my process) when I tried it for (DBD-mysql-2.1017.tar.gz) it failed (perhaps only because the password w as involved).

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thank you,

Ben

At 08:07 2004/06/11 +0200, you wrote: