The first line of swishspider contains the path to Perl:
  #!/path/to/perl

update that to the path for your system and it should work fine.

moo

At 04:39 PM 2/17/99 -0800, Omar Kish Steinberg wrote:
>
>Hi, I just subscribed to this list, so I hope that my question is not
>redundant.  
>
>I am currently setting up Swish-e on my web server which is running Linux
>Redhat 5.0.  I would like to index my pages using the http method.  In the
>configuration file i have specified the path of the perl helper script,
>swishspider, with the following line:
>
>SpiderDirectory /usr/local/bin/
>
>The script is definitely in that directory.  However, when I attempt to
>index a web site, I get the following error:
>
>sh: /usr/local/bin/swishspider: No such file or directory
>
>It is very bizarre because -- I swear -- it's really there!  
>
>Any ideas?
>
>Thanks a lot in advance
>
>--Omar 
>
>
>
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