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Locating the Perl program

The first line of every Perl program gives the location of Perl on the system.  This is so a command from an outside web page will instantly know what program to execute, and where to look for it.

From the command prompt, type  which perl and press [ENTER].

Hopefully, the system returned a line similar to this:

/usr/bin/perl
or
/usr/local/bin/perl

Write down the result.  This is the location of Perl on your system, and you will need it.

If the system did not return a result, try this:
 

If you still do not have the path to Perl, you will need to e-mail your system administrator.  Finish this page before doing this because you may need to ask for more than one thing.


 

Locating the sendmail program

Type whereis sendmail and press [ENTER].

Hopefully you will get several results, and one of them will end with just sendmail. For example I get this result on my system:
sendmail: /etc/sendmail.cf /etc/sendmail /etc/sendmail.st /usr/lib/sendmail.no_mx
/usr/lib/sendmail.mx /usr/lib/sendmail /usr/lib/sendmail.hf /usr/man/man8/send

I know that everything good is in the /usr/ directory, and the only one of those which ends with just sendmail is this:
/usr/lib/sendmail
So that's what I will write down.

If you had problems locating either the Perl program, or the sendmail program, you should e-mail your system administrator and ask for the correct paths.

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