Does Perl need to be installed??

[pshankland]

Stupid question (probably) but does Perl need to be installed to get Cacti working correctly?? I have been using MRTG which requires Perl and have now moved on a clean server to Cacti and when I run cmd.php for poller.php I get the following errors:

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C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>php d:\cacti\poller.php
'perl' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
'perl' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
'perl' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
'perl' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
'perl' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
Content-type: text/html
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.9

Everything seems to work ok but I would like to know.

Thanks.

Pete.

[TheWitness]

Not required unless you want to utilize scripts that leverage it. It's a free download, so I can see why not.

TheWitness