Karl R. Balsmeier wrote: > Hi, > > I just used RPMforge package perl-Mail-Sender, and am looking at the > perl cpan site for info, anyone got a simple way to determine if the > module is working properly? A very superficial test. If it fails, then the module is definitely not working. In my case, it's not even installed: ########################################################### $ cat perl-test #!/usr/bin/perl -w use Mail::Sender; $ ./perl-test Can't locate Mail/Sender.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib64/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib64/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib64/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib64/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.7/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.7 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib64/perl5/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8 .) at ./perl-test line 3. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ./perl-test line 3. ############################################################ For more thorough tests, I guess you could write a simple Perl script and actually test the module's functionality. Can't really beat that for accuracy in testing. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/