On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 08:43:12AM -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Daniel Bye" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "FreeBSD Questions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 8:29 AM > > On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 08:26:45AM -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > > > > > > $0='webmin'; > ^ > > > > > > However when starting the program it dies with the following > message: > > > > > > Is there something really easy I'm missing? If it's complicated I'm > > > going to forget it as it's not that important. > > > Yes - a `;' at the end of the line ;-) > > Thanks. That removed the error but failed to change the process name. > I looked at the code a little more. I'm not experienced in this but it > seems to me that the 'package miniserv;' line calls a precompiled > program? Here's the beginning of the script:
No - in Perl, a "package" is a namespace - an abstract storage space. It helps keep a module's (i.e. package's) variables etc logically separate from those of other packages. It prevents collisions in variable names, data structures, etc. The variable $0 contains, by default, the name of the file containing the currently running script. > > #!/usr/bin/perl > # A very simple perl web server used by Webmin > > $0='webmin'; > > # Require basic libraries > package miniserv; <-- This is just declaring that the following code is in the "miniserv" package. > use Socket; > use POSIX; > > Then a little farther in the script, I see this code: > > # Get miniserv's perl path and location > $miniserv_path = $0; > open(SOURCE, $miniserv_path); > <SOURCE> =~ /^#!(\S+)/; $perl_path = $1; > close(SOURCE); > @miniserv_argv = @ARGV; > > So I suspect the process name gets set in this somewhere? As you have poked $0 before it gets this far, no - $0 contains the value you set above. Which might, in itself, cause problems later in the script. Without reviewing it, I couldn't tell you. Dan -- Daniel Bye PGP Key: ftp://ftp.slightlystrange.org/pgpkey/dan.asc PGP Key fingerprint: 3B9D 8BBB EB03 BA83 5DB4 3B88 86FC F03A 90A1 BE8F _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \
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