update-finance-quote problem

[Derek Atkins]

looks like you don't have CPAN set up problem for your
environment.

-derek

frank fuller <frank at last-laugh.net> writes:

> I'm fairly new to Linux and could sure use some help. I installed RH8
> from their disks, and that's where I got gnucash (1.6). Gnucash loaded
> fine and I'm using it for some simple things and think it works great.
> But now I want to get stock quotes and gnucash told me to run
> update-finance-quote from root, which I did. here's what I got:
> 
> # update-finance-quote
> CPAN: Storable loaded ok
> CPAN: LWP::UserAgent loaded ok
> Fetching with LWP:
>   ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
> LWP failed with code[400] message[FTP return code 000]
> Fetching with Net::FTP:
>   ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
> Couldn't fetch 01mailrc.txt.gz from ftp.perl.org
> 
> Trying with "/usr/bin/wget -O -" to get
>     ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
> --10:48:20--  ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
>            => `-'
> Resolving ftp.perl.org... done.
> Connecting to ftp.perl.org[209.221.142.118]:21... connected.
> Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in!
> ==> SYST ... done.    ==> PWD ... done.
> ==> TYPE I ... done.  ==> CWD /pub/CPAN/authors ... done.
> ==> PORT ... done.    ==> RETR 01mailrc.txt.gz ...
> Error in server response, closing control connection.
> Retrying.
> 
> --10:51:32--  ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
>   (try: 2) => `-'
> Connecting to ftp.perl.org[209.221.142.118]:21... connected.
> Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in!
> ==> SYST ... done.    ==> PWD ... done.
> ==> TYPE I ... done.  ==> CWD /pub/CPAN/authors ... done.
> ==> PORT ... done.    ==> RETR 01mailrc.txt.gz ...
> 
> It keeps repeating that with /usr/bin/wget, trying to get
> 10mailrc.txt.gz, but never can. 
> 
> I'm not sure what to do, but any suggestions would be greatly
> appreciated. I could even get 01mailrc.txt.gz myself and run the update
> again, but I don't know where to install it.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Frank Fuller 
> 
> 
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       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
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