cpan problem with Term::ReadLine

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Hello all,

I am facing problems with cpan / cpanp:

demotionhermes ~ # cpan
Cannot open sys$command for read at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/CPAN.pm line 248

After a lot of googling I found that this is a problem with missing /dev/tty and that is why Term::ReadLine cannot determine the OS...

Any suggestions?
Thanx in advance!

[DanL@VPSLink]

My apologies for the delay in my reply - have you tried running cd /dev && MAKEDEV tty to create the device?

[demotion]

Originally Posted by DanL@VPSLink

My apologies for the delay in my reply - have you tried running cd /dev && MAKEDEV tty to create the device?

Hello, thanx for the reply.
I tried it without any success:

# cd /dev && MAKEDEV tty
/usr/sbin/MAKEDEV: warning: can't read /proc/devices
/usr/sbin/MAKEDEV: don't know how to make device "tty"

[DanL@VPSLink]

Are you running under the root account?

Is /proc mounted?

What do the following commands yield?

• mknod /dev/tty c 5 0
• chmod 666 /dev/tty
• chown root:root /dev/tty

[demotion]

Thank you very much!
I ran the commands you posted and everything is now normal!

Thanx again!