Re: Perl and Berkley DB - troubles
Mariusz [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *Hello, * *1. I have installed perl (perl-5.6.1.tar.gz) *2. I have installed Berkley DB (db-4.0.14.tar.gz) *3. now, when I try to run a Perl script, it says: * * *Checking for installation of Berkely DB or GNU DB capability... *No DBM package was successfully found or installed at */usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.1/AnyDBM_File.pm line 14. *Compilation failed in require at ./setup.pl line 40. * * *What's wrong? AnyDBM_File.pm is present in the proper directory, but the *script keeps moniting... Should I recompile Perl with some options or *install DBM first? *I also tried to install DB from .rpm and as perl modules (cpan) as well but *it didn't change anything. http://www.cpan.org/misc/cpan-faq.html#Where_find_GDBM_file e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Time and Date
A Taylor [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: * *Also I have had to add 1 to the hour var: $hour ++; even though my web *space providers are in the same country as me - does anyone know why this *is - I am probably being a bit daft - well it is 1am, and I have been *perling for about 16 hours now !!! Gulp ^_^ As far as I know, gmtime() returns hours in the range of 0..23 :) You might want to check out the core module Time::Local too. e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: perl CPAN modules
Pfeiffer, Richard [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: * *Wondering what list I should send a question to regarding CPAN modules, in *particular, the intitial config file. *Ignore the rest of this lengthy diatribe if this is not the correct list. *:) There is no CPAN.pm list sadly but installing modules can be topical on nearly every perl related list so don't worry about it too much. *When I loaded my first module, actually a bundle, I used: *perl -MCPAN -e 'install Bundle::Bugzilla' * *It then prompted for a series of answers, ranging from what mirror sites I'd *like to use to where gzip, make, etc., are located. *Well, since doing that, I have installed a diffent make and am trying *desperately wanting/trying to tell perl/CPAN this, but not sure exactly how *to go about it. Everytime I run or re-run a module installation, it still *runs from the old location and bombs with errors such as: [...] * *I see that there are two Config.pm files ( Config.pm and Config.pm~ ) in the *perl installation dir located at: */usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.0/CPAN *I saw that the make setting is located there and I am about ready to try *just tweaking it manually by editing those files. However, I can't imagine *that's the proper way to do that! Any ideas? Tried install on the *CPAN::FirstTime module, but that just returned an everything is up-to-date *Then I did a recompile CPAN::FirstTime module. Went through everything, but *no prompts for locations, mirrors, etc. http://search.cpan.org/author/ANDK/CPAN-1.62/lib/CPAN.pm In the pod is a description of all the configuration parameters. If you do something like cpano conf make path to new make cpano conf commit it should fix the problem. If it doesn't, go in as a last resort and edit it manually. You can also try the MyConfig.pm tactic which will override the system config. There is a 'grok-cpan.pdf' in http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/H/HF/HFB/ that you may find helpful. And, you may want to get aquainted with http://search.cpan.org/author/KANE/CPANPLUS-0.036/ if you feel like giving it a try. It's still in development but it may make your life easier. e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mailing list for Tk users?
Octavian Rasnita [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *Hi all, * *Can you recommend me a mailing list for Tk module users? * if there is such a thing. http://lists.cpan.org/showlist.cgi?name=ptk e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Anyone know what Perl Jaguar is coming with?
Eric Plowe [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *Jaquar is shipping with 5.8.0 No, it is not. Jaguar went gold several weeks before 5.8.0 was released. Jaguar will be shipping with 5.6.1. e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PPM3 Repositories
Nigel Peck [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *Are there any other PPM repositories worth noting other than the *standard ActiveState ones? (I know about the Mod_Perl one) Since I don't do Wintel I don't know much about PPM but I'm aware of a few things that may be helpful. CPANPLUS is a 'still-in-development' replacement for the current CPAN.pm and it also has a feature for making packages, including PPM. You can try it at your own risk but I'm sure the dev team would appreciate any constructive feedback should you find the PPM package maker doesn't do what it should. http://cpanplus.sourceforge.net/ http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/04/30/cpants.html The latter discussees the testing interface. http://jenda.krynicky.cz/ http://www.northbound-train.com/perlwin32.html are also good resources. One can also complain to ActiveState since it is their product afterall and they may be more responsive if more people expressed an interest in a current PPM archive. I know that one of the AS people _does_ keep such an archive somewhere inside the organisation, but I don't recall if it is publicly available or not. It may be just part of the 'premium' service they sell but it can't hurt to ask about it. e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Processing text
Jo [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: * *The original file was saved on a windows machine, and i copy/pasted it through a linux text editor. I noticed when i edit the original file using vi, down the bottom next to the file name is [dos]. Im thinking this has something to do with it. http://history.perl.org/oneliners/filters/dos2unix.html You can also simply use the unix utility 'dos2unix' which comes with most flavours of unix these days. e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CPAN viruses
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *Hello: *Just downloaded my first CPAN module (woo-hoo). What risks are *associated with installing these modules? Are they checked for viruses, *etc. before posting? No more than with anything else you download from the net and install onto a system. Modules aren't audited upon upload but an MD5 checksum is generated which you can use either manually or with CPAN.pm to verify the validity of the distribution but, again, this isn't a foolproof guarantee of secure non-malicious code. The CPAN Testers tend to validate and test quite a few modules to catch such problems early. Identifying malicious code in perl modules would also prove to be a daunting task considering the volume and range of skill. Over the last 7 years, we haven't had any problems of this nature and hopefully it will remain that way in spite of the fact that, with over 200 independent mirrors around the globe, it would be very easy to distribute such a file and very difficult to provide a system that would safeguard against it if the point of origination was PAUSE. So far people seem to respect the space and find other things to entertain themselves with. We have discussed such things as a fingerprint database but, again, it wouldn't be 100% secure. As with everything, caveat emptor. e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Modules
Shishir K. Singh [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *Wanted to know the modules that are already present in the standard stable.tar.gz distribution. I had a Active Perl distribution. Now I need to install the stable.tar.gz and wanted to know the additional modules that I may have to install. http://www.cpan.org/misc/cpan-faq.html e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Crypt:: or ???
Teresa Raymond [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *Which module is the easiest to learn and offers the best *encryption/decryption? There were so many that I did not feel *capable of choosing one at CPAN. Encryption/decryption for username *and passwords Unix passwords use what is known as DES which is a 'one-way' encryption scheme so if this is for system password encryption, I'd recommend you use Crypt::DES or Crypt::Blowfish if you use OpenBSD though the crypt function in perl is suitable for encrypting small amounts of data like passwords. http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Crypt-DES http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Crypt-Blowfish http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Crypt-CBC Also, DES has been replaced with AES or Rijndael as the new 'Federal Standard' which you might find interesting http://csrc.nist.gov/encryption/aes/ e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Perl/linux sysadmin question...
Ron Powell [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *I was recently reading Linux Administrators Handbook (by the same folks who *wrote Unix System Administrators Handbook) and it mentioned that you could *write a perl script to add users, set their passwords, etc. * *The question is, could someone point me to a faq (faq only, please - I'm *keen to try it myself first) containing the appropriate information? *Originally, I was going to write a shell script that used expect... but *I'd much rather use perl for it. The Perl FAQ, http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/CPAN/perl/pod/perlfaq8.html, covers parts of this, CPAN has a scripts section http://cpan.valueclick.com/scripts/admin/ that has a few examples, and usually most Unix variants these days come with 'useradd' or 'adduser' or some other similarly obfuscated name :) e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Perl in a Nutshell
Denham Eva [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: * *I see a number of mails about Perl books. Most of them mention the O'Reilly *Books. *Does anyone use Perl in a Nutshell? Is it any good as a reference book? O'Reilly cornered the Perl book market pretty early so they have most of the current worthwhile perl books on the market though there are other books out there published by Addison-Wesley, Manning, et. al. that are often better than their ORA counterparts but aren't as well known. The Perl Nutshell was...less than stellar but there is a 2nd edition in the works right now which may improve the book. If you just want a reference then the only book I'd consider would be the 3rd Edition of the Camel, a.k.a. Programming Perl. e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Books
Jim C. [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *There was a lot of stuff removed from Learning Perl 3rd Ed that was in *2nd. It has been kind of cool to see what was removed. I guess they *thought that some of the items were a: not important or relevant b: more *advanced or c: deprecated (tm). I haven't seen anything added to 3rd *that wasn't in 2nd though, I admit I don't reference that book that much *anymore. Much of the stuff that was removed was due to the change in authors and a bit of spiffing up though you may all send roses and chocolates to the Editor who didn't include the goofy dialogues between TomP and Randal throughout the book :) I don't have the Llama's handy but as I recall the 3rd had a lot of new material and I remember there being far fewer references to the Flintstones :) Overall the 3rd Ed. is a major improvement especially for anyone who may have been previously intimidated by the 2nd ed. And the 3rd. Edition Camel is similarly an improvement over the 2nd ed. as there is a new and improved index, a reference section and a lot more useful information in general. http://www.bookpool.com/ has them for 30% off most of the time so stay off the pizza for a few days and get the 3rd editions. e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Perl Tut's
Czar [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: * *Any recommendations for Beginner's Tutorials web pages ? http://bookmarks.cpan.org/search.cgi?cat=Training%2FTutorials e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing modules without a C compiler
Craig Moynes/Markham/IBM [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: * * *Ok that seems to do the trick, the only thing I am worried about is during *the installation to the real directory some data is appended to *perllocal.pod. The documentation for MakeMaker say you can disable this *with pure_install, but I can't find anywhere that explains the use of *perllocal.pod. * *A quick look at its contents show multiple copies of modules I have *installed locally (due to not uninstalling I imagine). * *Does anyone know about the need for perllocal.pod ? perllocal is a crude but effective accounting system for perl. You aren't really supposed to use it per se as it isn't really useful for anything other than looking to verify that $module was, in fact, installed on $system at any given time since there are easier and more efficient ways of obtaining the list of installed modules. So, unless you have a burning need to fiddle with it, it ain't broke so don't fix it :) e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CPAN?
Bryan R Harris [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: * *This is the beginners list, right? * *I heard that you could find code for almost anything at CPAN. How do you *go about this? The front page of CPAN lists a number of search engines for CPAN and a FAQ. *For example, say I want to recurse through a directory and all *subdirectories creating an index text file in each directory containing a *list of the text files in that directory. Can CPAN help with that task? The FAQs are filled with questions and answers even though most people think their situation is unique or that it has never been asked before.. http://www.perlfaq.com/cgi-bin/view?view_by_id=102 http://cpan.valueclick.com/authors/id/A/AR/ARDAN/filelogger-1.4 http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/CPAN/perl/pod/perlfaq.html e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: web automation - where to read?
Martin A. Hansen [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *hi * *im trying to write a scipt that crawls a website. however, with only the documentation from the perl cookbook and some no_good manpages from the LWP modules, im stuck! * *where can i find som documentation (pref. online) ? * *or even some examples ? I don't know if any examples are online as robots can be a dangerous menace when done poorly or incorrectly but you'll want to have a look at the RobotUA module in the LWP distribution, http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=libwww-perl Also the book Perl and LWP, http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0596001789, should be out soon which has a whole chapter on spiders and includes a working example. e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to find module dependencies
sharan [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: * *How to find the module dependencies? I have used many modules in my tool *development, and i given all the modules used with my tool package. But when *the tool is installed on Windows at the customer places they are getting *problems as some of the module use some depenedent modules. Is there any way *to find out what are all the modules that are dependent. http://language.perl.com/misc/pmtools-1.00.tar.gz has a number of module tools you might find useful or http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Module-Dependency which is pretty darn cool. e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to find module dependencies
Michael Lamertz [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: * *PS: I've made the mistake to install quite a handful of modules via *Debian packages instead of CPAN and they are *NOT* installed in *'site_perl' but somewhere in '/usr/local/share' and are also *NOT* *registered in perllocal. That's *NOT* funny, Debians! Do they turn up with CPAN.pm or ExtUtils::Installed? Not being in perllocal isn't that awful since it's, more or less, an internal accounting file for Perl that is hard to manage if you remove the packages and leave the perllocal intact. e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: browsing html pages
Martin [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: * *As a Perl rookie I've got a serious problem trying to find out how to write *a code which should do the following stuff: connect to specified URL using *HTTP, send GET / PUT messages and process the output (web page) from the *server. I went throug my Perl guidebook but found nothing according to this *subject. Can anybody give me a hint (and/or suggest a good reference guide *for *Perl on the internet) ? If you can wait until July Perl and LWP, http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0596001789, is an outstanding book for this sort of stuff. There is 'perldoc lwpcook' as well. e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Examples of POD
Kevin Old [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *Hello all, * *I was wondering if anyone had a couple of scripts that showed uses of POD *among Perl code? * *Any help is appreciated. Perl includes a little utility called 'podchecker' which you can use to check your POD for validity once you get it written. e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Question about this list
Kevin Meltzer [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: * *http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.beginners/ Which reminded me to finally add the nntp stuff to the listings so http://lists.cpan.org/showlist.cgi?name=beginners, etc. should do for future reference. e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: More HTML::Template help
A Taylor [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: * *My question is where do I run these commands from - I have downloaded and *un-zipped the HTML-Template fron CPAN but am having difficulties installing *it. I was hoping that it would be as easy as TELNETing in to the server *space but I cant even do that *I need to install it locally as the web hosting compny I am using wont *install it. * *Please help as I have been working on this for too long If your ISP won't install it and you don't have access to a shell then getting that module on the box is not an option. e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Parsing emails in mailbox
Ankit Gupta [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: * * I need help to parse emails for their From, UID and message text fields *from a local mailbox file (unix type). I am using Windows Me and any sort of *help in this direction would be highly appreciated. If someone can provide *some sample code, that will be really very nice. You didn't mention what you wanted to do with the Unix mail but MHonArc will convert it to HTML. http://www.oac.uci.edu/indiv/ehood/mhonarc.html e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problem sending mail
Aman Raheja [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *Hi all *I am trying to send a mail with the following code and the last print *statement doesn't print, ie, the mail is not sent. *This code is called on submitting a form on the web * *open(MAIL, /usr/sbin/sendmail -oi -t) || die Can't open mail; *print MAIL END; *To: amancgiperl\@hotmail.com *Subject: News *all the message goes here *END * *close(MAIL); *print The mail has been sent successfullyBRBR; *- *If I remove the -oi -t switch from the first statement, the print statement *works but the mail is not sent. *Please help and let me know what could I be missing, in or above the code. #!/usr/bin/perl -w open(MAIL, |/usr/sbin/sendmail -oi -t -f foo\@bar.com) || die Can't open mail; print MAIL 'DNE'; To: amancgiperl\@hotmail.com Subject: News all the message goes here DNE close(MAIL); Other than the obvious changes you should *always* add -w and use perl -c $programname whenever you find something works. Also, END is a reserved word so never use that in a 'here' doc. e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Perl on the Palm OS?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *I would like to write a program in perl which can be run on a Palm OS *powered handheld. Any idea how I would go about doing this, or if it's even *possible at this point in time? http://www.cpan.org/ports/ PalmOS - no known ports So, no, it's not possible at this point. e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Net::FTP
OZGUR GENC [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: * *I can not install any Net::FTP module from http://search.cpan.org/ . I *can not uncompress any downloaded Net::FTP modules. Does anyone have *any idea what problem can be? Well, you have to uncompress them before you can install them. Check to make sure you have 'gzip' or 'gunzip' along with tar and that you have a platform agreeable to the module, e.g. Win32:: on windows, not on Unix. You should also read the FAQ http://www.cpan.org/misc/cpan-faq.html with particular attention to the module sections. e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: why wont html templates work with perl ???
A Taylor [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *I have been trying (and trying) to use the code below as I need to use HTML *templates in perl, and I keep getting the same error. * *Can't locate HTML/Template.pm in @INC (@INC contains: */usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503 */usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005 .) *at /home/sites/site171/web/ibglda6kekkd/test.pl line 5. * *This looks to me as though the server that provides the web space that I am *using doesnt support 'use HTML::Template;'. Is this correct or have I *really lost the plot ? (Probably both !!!) - If so, what is the *alternative. There has to be another way of using templates in PERL I *have been told by the company that provide the web space that I cant upload *modules - is this true - and can I upload the HTML::Template module ? It means precisely what it says - it cannot locate that module in any of it's known library paths. So, you can either ask your ISP to install that module for you or you can read teh section on the CPAN FAQ, http://www.cpan.org/misc/cpan-faq.html, about how to install a module in a different location and how to use it. Given the above, you'd probably be limited to asking the ISP to install it for you. e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Scope of my() declared variables WAS( Re: -e $filename...)
Timothy Johnson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: * *Here's the part I still don't understand, and maybe some of you can show me *the light. What is the difference between local() and my()? I have never *used local(), the only examples I've ever been given involve scoping $_, and *if I am ever tempted to do that, I can usually trace it back to a bad *algorithm. I always found the local, my, our mess pretty confusing and the best explanation is MJD's Coping with Scoping http://perl.plover.com/FAQs/Namespaces.html Make good note of the text in red :) e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problem sending mail
Aman Raheja [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *Hi all *I am trying to send a mail with the following code and the last print *statement doesn't print, ie, the mail is not sent. *This code is called on submitting a form on the web * *open(MAIL, /usr/sbin/sendmail -oi -t) || die Can't open mail; *print MAIL END; *To: amancgiperl\@hotmail.com *Subject: News *all the message goes here *END * *close(MAIL); *print The mail has been sent successfullyBRBR; *- *If I remove the -oi -t switch from the first statement, the print statement *works but the mail is not sent. *Please help and let me know what could I be missing, in or above the code. #!/usr/bin/perl -w open(MAIL, |/usr/sbin/sendmail -oi -t -f foo\@bar.com) || die Can't open mail; print MAIL 'DNE'; To: amancgiperl\@hotmail.com Subject: News all the message goes here DNE close(MAIL); Other than the obvious changes you should *always* add -w and use perl -c $programname whenever you find something works. Also, END is a reserved word so never use that in a 'here' doc. e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Location of SendMail
@fro @ndy [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: * *My friend said that you cant use sendmail on a Windows machine so i am asking if this is true. If it is true are there any sendmail programs out there that would work with my current OS? Not true but you'd have to install it and, as I recall, it's a commercial product these days. Try Mail::Sendmail instead. http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Mail-Sendmail e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DBI results help
rory oconnor [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth:
*I'm trying to write some queries to export MySQL information to a file,
*and I'm a bit of a newbie. I'm querying the database for fieldnames,
*and then field data. then I want to write the data to a file in a sort
*of key:value format:
*
*and I guess I can do a second query to select the data, but I am stuck
*at how to write them out in sort of key-value pairs. and i'm not even
*sure this is the most efficient way.
I'm not sure what you had there but try the following with your fields and
query inserted where applicable.
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use DBI;
use strict;
open DBSET, dboutput or die can't open dboutput: $!;
my $dbh = DBI-connect( dbi:mysql:dbname, username, passwd );
my $sth = $dbh-prepare(
SELECT field1, field2
FROM db
WHERE field1 = ''
);
$sth-execute();
while ( my ($field1,$field2) = $sth-fetchrow_array ) {
print DBSET $field1 is a part of $field2\n;
}
$dbh-disconnect;
close DBSET;
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Re: DBD for mySQL
Bob T [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: * * Will someone point me to the Win module for DBD:mysql.. The CPAN FAQ, http://www.cpan.org/misc/cpan-faq.html, lists a number of resources for ActivePerl modules. e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: perllocal.pod
Robert Brandtjen [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: * *contains only about 9 of over 100 installed PM's - how can I update it *to see all of them ? You shouldn't ever need or want to manually edit perllocal yourself. e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PERL Modules
Jonathan E. Paton [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *Correct, they are standard modules - apparently not available any other *way... I presume so that you know the standard ones are working for a *given version of perl. * *You *could* download Perl 5.6, and transplant them... and fix the minor *problem that OO wasn't properly implemented until 5.005_03. Honestly, Yes, you could, but it wouldn't work and the sysadmin would break your knuckles, lovingly, one at a time just to hear you scream. *upgrade to 5.6 something, or even 5.8 (is it out yet?) - even if you 5.8 should be out by July. e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to get version values from other code?
drieux [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: * *My real concern is grovelling through old grot to figure out *like what it Thinks It is dependent upon. * *This way folks could self grovel their code and be able to *provide their basic 'my code needs' foo info when presenting *questions about the code Well, try pmtools http://www.cpan.org/misc/cpan-faq.html#How_installed_modules or http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=CPAN-DistroBuilder e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Strip Carriage Returns
Glenn Cannon [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: * *Illegal character \015 (carriage return) at index.pl line 2. *(Maybe you didn't strip carriage returns after a network transfer?) * *Is there a simple way to prevent/cure this? Several. Most modern Unixes have 'dos2unix' available or you can use Perl http://history.perl.org/oneliners/filters/dos2unix.html e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Find all files that end in .jpg
Naomi Arries [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *Help I'm struggling to have these two pieces of codes do *what I want it to do * *With code (1) *I'm trying to recursively decends into directories to find *all the files that end in .jpg. use File::Find; http://www.perlfaq.com/cgi-bin/view?view_by_id=19 e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sort by field
Bryan R Harris [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: * *I'm very much a beginner, I guess, the perldoc page on sort doesn't make *much sense to me. * *I've got a tab-delimited file read into an array, now I want to sort it on *the contents of column 3. Could someone point me in the right direction? http://www.perlfaq.com/cgi-bin/view?view_by_id=203 http://www.perlfaq.com/cgi-bin/view?view_by_id=68 http://www.perlfaq.com/cgi-bin/view?view_by_id=67 e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: module / driver install question
Johnson, Shaunn [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *Anyway ... how can I tell if the driver is installed? *Also, why am I getting this error? perl -MDBI -e 'print $DBI::VERSION\n' perl -MDBD::PG -e 'print $DBD::PG::VERSION\n' If you don't get a version number, it isn't installed. You also have to have PG installed prior to installing the PG module. e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: converting html to text
Paul Tremblay [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: * *I am wodering if there isn't a CPAN module already written. *Converting html to text seems like such a common task, that there *ought to be some robust scripts out there. Interestingly enough, *I found many scripts to convert html to rtf and LaTeX and every *other format, but not plain old text! That's what the search engine is for http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=HTML-Format e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: perl6
Timothy Johnson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: * *At the risk of beating a dead and bloated horse, I have no doubt that I will *enjoy and take advantages of the improvements in Perl6, but I still don't *see the logic in changing operators. I mean, why make old code unusable? *If you can make a Perl5-6 converter, why can't you integrate Perl5 code *into Perl6? Like I said, I have no doubt that I will use the many new *features of Perl6 and enjoy them, but I think that sums up a lot of the gut *reactions of people that I have spoken to. Why worry about that which doesn't exist yet and won't for a long while? And Perl5 is not anywhere close to being dead. If your old stuff ain't broke, don't fix it :) e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: perl / database question
Johnson, Shaunn [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth:
*Yes I am very new at this ... I was hoping I
*could learn from some examples floating
*around ... but I'm not sure where my results
*should merge with the code (successfully).
*
*The 'while' statement: I want to say 'while
*reading from this list of tables, create
*a scrolling window and populate it with
*the results from the sql query from above'.
*
*Are there any examples as to how to
*do this?
There are precious few out there as I went looking for a bare bones
example of something very similar for the CPAN Mirror page since I am not
a Web/CGI person and came up completely empty save for the examples from
the Perl DBI book http://examples.oreilly.com/perldbi/
I use MySQL but I think the Postgres fretchrow is very similar to the
MySQL fetchrow so you'll have something like:
my $sth = $dbh-prepare(
SELECT name,summary
FROM list
ORDER by name
);
$sth-execute;
while ( my ( $name, $summary ) = $sth-fetchrow_array ) {
print EOF;
TRTD$name/TD
/TR
EOF
}
similarly for a select list/pull-down menu list
my $sth = $dbh-prepare(
SELECT DISTINCT category
FROM list
ORDER by category
);
$sth-execute();
my %categories;
while ( my ( $category ) = $sth-fetchrow_array ) {
@categories{split(' ', $category)} = ();
}
for my $category (sort keys %categories) {
printEOF;
OPTION VALUE=$category$category/OPTION
EOF
}
printEOF;
/SELECT/P
PINPUT TYPE=submit VALUE=Category/P
/FORM
where you make the query then dump out the contents in a while loop with a
HERE doc. Your mileage may vary, but that's basically it :)
e.
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Re: Two Strategies for Delivering Modules - or why ppm et al
drieux [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: * *At one facility we just 'home rolled' a solution in the *'build system' that outputted solaris packages - with *all of the stock versioning in it so that people on *the 'production network' could simply do Solaris packages aren't really 'home rolling' and take a bit of skill to put them together properly with pre- and post- install scripts. When combined with the 'autobundle' feature of CPAN.pm and jumpstart it becomes a very easy way to distribute consistent packages of perl around the network. You can do similar things with the BSD ports and I'm sure PPM is also capable. e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Using a module in the current pwd
Archer [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: * *how can I use a module that is located in the same directory as my .pl file? *I'm searching for an equivalent to the C++ #include headerfile.h directive, *which includes a header located in the current pwd. http://www.cpan.org/misc/cpan-faq.html#How_install_private e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: about the Readme file for CPAN modules
drieux [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: * *My concern is whether anyone here understands the stuff about *how to do a proper README file for a CPAN module - and I thought *i would ask folks who might know what they like and what is *just too much writing. A README can be anything you like but most authors duplicate the POD from their module in it or just have a brief description of the module. http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/CPAN/perl/pod/perlnewmod.html http://cpan.valueclick.com/authors/id/H/HF/HFB/grok-cpan.pdf may be helpful. e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Which is better?
Ken Cole [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: * *My question, in my experience NFS is not the quickest program around. *Will it be faster to use say LWP or Net::ftp or similar to put and get *the files in question than writing and reading from the NFS *exported/mounted directory or shouldn't I worry? There are a number of benchmarking tools for NFS out on the net so you can get an idea where the bottlenecks are that you seem to be experiencing since it could be anything from your CGI, slow disks, slow network, slow OS or anything inbetween and not excluding misconfigurations. I'm pretty sure that a properly configured NFS relationship over a private netowrk is going to be far faster than anything you can write in perl to transfer over ftp/http. NFS on linux is async though and may be slower with the SCO box if its NFS is sync. Tuning NFS has been a career for some people :) e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Net::FTP::Common - get(RemoteFile = ?)
Brian Volk [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *Hi All, * *I'm trying to have perl get a file from my web hosting account. I *searched around and found Net::FTP::Common. I get logged into my ftp *account and can perform a ls but I get an error when I try to get a *file. Here's the error: Since you cut and pasted the program from the module POD perhaps you should direct this question to the module author or read the documentation a little more carefully. e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing my own modules
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: * *It would be nicer if I knew how to put Image::Size or any other module I want *in my own cgi-bin. *How do I make perl find the modules I upload? http://www.cpan.org/misc/cpan-faq.html#How_install_private e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Making my own error.logs
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *My new web hosting service at oneononeinternet.com doesn't have error logs *for each site. What do I do? * *Is there a way for me to create my own logs for my perl files? You probably would benefit from buying http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1565926471/ e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Perl Modules
OZGUR GENC [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *Hi All, *I would like to use perl modules. *I downloaded the module (Telnet.pm) and I copied it to http://www.cpan.org/misc/cpan-faq.html#How_install_Perl_modules e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: LWP binary file retrievals?
siren jones [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *Is it possible to use LWP::Simple to retrieve a binary file (i.e. a .netCDF *file)? Using the following code I can retrieve what I'm guessing are parts *of the file. That is, what is retrieved is always 3871 bytes even though *the file is actually much larger. Worse, I can not read the .netcdf file *once it is retrieved. Any ideas why this may be the case? Or better yet, *how to grab a binary data file off the web? I don't know what a .netCDF file is but I have no trouble getting .jpg, ..gif, .tar.gz, etc. files with LWP::Simple. e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Attacking this wrong? Syslog sort extract question
swansong [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *I'm fairly certain I'm attacking this incorrectly, so any advice is *greatly appreciated... Well...there are easier ways to do it. Let syslog do the work for you and add 'kern.debug /var/adm/kern_debug.log' to /etc/syslog.conf [ the space must be a tab ] and restart syslog. This will direct kernel messages and only kernel messages, such as reboot information, to that file thus making your job a whole lot easier. e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Simple LWP web retrieval question
siren jones [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *I tried the following code to retrieve netCDF data files from a website. * *use LWP::Simple * getstore(source_url/, input_filename); perl -MLWP::Simple -e 'getstore http://www.cpan.org,foo;' works like a charm. However, yours, with the addition of -w and 'use strict;' #!/usr/local/bin/perl -w use strict; use LWP::Simple getstore(http://www.perl.org/;, ouput_filename); generates the following with 'perl -c program name' --- Bareword found where operator expected at foo line 5, near , ouput_filename (Missing operator before ouput_filename?) Bareword ouput_filename not allowed while strict subs in use at foo line 5. syntax error at foo line 5, near , ouput_filename foo had compilation errors. --- Modify the program by reading the errors... #!/usr/local/bin/perl -w use strict; use LWP::Simple; getstore(http://www.perl.org;, ouput_filename); --- which works fine. Always use -w and 'perl -c program' is always a good way to ferret out the easy mistakes. e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FW: How long can $_ be?
Anette Seiler [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: * * This got me wondering. Is the behavior you see caused by limitations * for $_, or by limitations of the print function? You might try: * print strlen( $_ ), \n; * *My Perl doesn't know what strlen is. Is it part of a module? * *I don't think, it is a limitation of the print function. I am not able to *find a string with a regular expression before I print something. It is a limitation of the Sun terminal. It is a bug. You must work around it or use another OS. e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How long can $_ be?
Anette Seiler [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: * *From the command line I start the script with perl script.pl. Now I *have to enter some text. I just enter any text, either by typing or by *cutting and pasting. I do not enter any strange characters or *newlines. I just type in some text. I even take care to just use *normal characters - no numbers, umlaute or anything else strange. *As you can see, I did not play with $/. * *As I wrote in my initial mail, the answer I get is not the answer I *expect. Whenever my input is more than 256 character, instead of *printing everything I entered, it prints only the last part of what I *entered, everything after character 256. The first part is chopped off. I believe you :) It's a 'feature' of Sun's terminal driver which only allows lines of 256 characters. A workaround would be to force a linewrap at 74 chars or read $_ from a file. e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Microsoft Word Documents
Michael D. Risser [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *I have searched CPAN, but so far no luck. Does anyone know of a module or *Perl script that can parse MS Word .doc files? * *I'm trying to add the ability to display these files in a web browser to a *document managment system I found on the web. http://snake.cs.tu-berlin.de:8081/~schwartz/pmh/ Laola e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Writing to beginning of file
Troy May [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *Hello, * *How do you write to the beginning of a file? I see only 3 options to open a *file: to read, to overwrite, and to append to the end of the file. * *I tried seeking to the beginning before the write, but it doesn't work. *Seek must only work for a read. * *Any ideas? The FAQ should be your first and second idea, always. perldoc perlfaq5 or see the 2nd question in http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/CPAN/perl/pod/perlfaq5.html e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: suidperl problem
Patrik Schaub [FMS] [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *hi johannes, * *could be a sollution - thanks * *but i really wonder why a perl script which is *setuid root and setguid root wont't do a simple Check the filesystem and make sure your SA hasn't gone and done the wise thing of mounting the volume -nosuid. If your're the SA then try truss/trace/dtrace/etc. to see what's happening. e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problems installing a module
PJ [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *Hello everyone, * *I'm trying to install my first module, and after one fairly embarrassing *mistake with nmake, I seem to be having more trouble. If you have ActivePerl use the ppm utility. If not you might find http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/CPAN/perl/README.win32.html helpful. e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: A training program on pdf scripting
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: * *Basically what I am looking for is manipulating pdf files (create *bookmarks, extract and insert pdf sheets) without using AcrobatExchange or *any pdf related packages. http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=PDF-API2 http://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/acrosdk/docs.html is the SDK e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Updated Perl to 5.6.1
Robert Brandtjen [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *Ok - I have very little experience with CPAN - other then a simple download *and install of a new module. * *Now that I have iupgraded from 5.6 to 5.6.1 (on RH7.2) is there someway to *automate the updating of all those perl mods that are listed under 5.6 but *not 5.6.1? *WHat I mean to say is, can I ussue either CPAN or perl a command which will *update those modules to 5.6.1 either as a group or individually? http://www.cpan.org/misc/cpan-faq.html#How_make_bundle use the autobundle feature of CPAN.pm e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Perl for Mac
Michael Kelly [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: * *BBEdit http://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit.html. (Not BBEdit Lite, *mind you, the full version.) * *IMHO, it's the best $120 any Mac *programmer/webmaster/doing-anything-involving-text-er will ever spend on a *3rd party app. BBEdit is really well worth the price. They've been very supportive of Perl and it always is nice to do a little quid pro quo when you can. Also, there are quite a number of macperl lists that would be more appropriate for mac editor questions. See http://lists.cpan.org/search.cgi?cat=Mac e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Anyone familiar with Perl for Netware
Louden, Chris [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *Hello, just joined the group looking for some help with Perl. I used to have *an NT box running Perl from Active State, it died in a most gruesome way. *Now I have a Novell 5.1 Server. Trying to reconfigure some of the scripts to *run in the Novell environment. http://www.cpan.org/ports/#netware e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Running a command Remotely on another Host
norishaam [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *Hi, * I've been trying to figure out the above, maybe someone has some *experience...Below is the scenario:- * *1. I have an executable, update.exe, that can run locally to update the *service pack. *2. I am trying to write a perl script to have this update.exe to run on *multiple remote machines, excuting it from my machine. *3. There isn't any option for this update.exe that allows it to run on *remote machines that I specified. *4. Is there any perl module, or perl way that I can get this done. I've always been fond of Network Shell. It's a commercial product but it does a terrific job and scales well. http://www.bladelogic.com/products_services/network_shell.html e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: strip first space
Tanton Gibbs [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: * *The regular expression *s/^\s//; s/^\s+//g; would be even better as it would remove all whitspace at the beginning of a line and it would replace all matches to the pattern instead of just the first it finds. e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: strip first space
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: * *$string =~ s/^\s+//; Removes leading whitespaces * *$string =~ s/^\s+//g; /g (GLOBALLY) is redundant in the *case of leading whitespages For a beginner, it's a not a critical detail. e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: Image Gallery
meyersac [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *I am designing and creating an image gallery for a class. I *am having users upload images, but I need the ability resize *these uploads, and save them, for the use in thumbnails, *using ImageMagick (PERL) but I have no clue where to start. *I am invisioning that this would be accomplished on the *server side. I am writing the pages in both HTML and *Coldfusion tags. If anybody could help, I'll be greatly *appreciative. http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/WebTechniques/col29.html for thumbnails http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/WebTechniques/col33.html for web gallery As much as I hate to give Randal's ego any more help, after an extensive search through the web late last year his is the best simple flexible little photo album thingy out there. All you need is modperl apache and a few other apps. http://www.imagemagick.org/ and http://stein.cshl.org/~lstein/ will have a lot of useful resources. Also, a perl conference is coming to WU later this year that you might attend since it's just down the road from SLU. See http://www.yapc.org/America/ for more details. Usually there's at least one of the perl grahics geeks in attendence. Salutations to Fr. Beyondme :) e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ftp module
Wagner-David [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: * I believe it is part of the libnet, but usually comes as part of the base Perl install. If wrong the Perl gurus will let us know. libnet is not part of the core perl package and will not be until perl 5.8.0 http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=libnet e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Image Gallery
Randal L. Schwartz [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: * *On my near-term todo list is to re-write that little image handler to *get the descriptions from a database and to display the data using *Template Toolkit for much greater flexibility. People keep wanting *next 5/next 20/all buttons, and the current code is sideways *enough that I wouldn't try it. If I rewrite it as a Template plus a *plugin to provide the data, then people can use it inside their own *Template-based websites with ease. One of its most attractive features is that it's simple and easy to use so if you do rewrite it keep that in mind :) HTML::Template is a lot more simple and easy to use than TT2. *There's apparently a Slashcode plugin (also Template-based) that is *already similar. I haven't seen it yet. All the overhead of Slash is silly if all you want is a nice little photo album. Slash, like GD, is not for the undetermined. But yes, there is a plug-in but it isn't in the Slash distribution yes. *And in spite of your spite (:-), thanks for the links. :) I tried very hard to find something else around the net written using mostly perl or better that I liked better but failed. Simple is good, especially when you have 500+ digital photos that really don't require any more trimming to add to the visual soup. e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: suidperl -- how to??
Ansh Kanwar [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: * *I am trying to compile a program which needs suidperl. What option do I *specify while compiling from source so that suidperl can be built? * *I am compiling stable-5.6.1 on a Solaris 8 machine. sh ./Configure -ders make make test make install I would highly recommend reading the perlsec manpage as suidperl can create bigger problems than the ones it solves. e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Perl question
Allison Ogle [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: * *I am a beginner trying to write a program which will read information from a *log file and write it to a spreadsheet for easier viewing and organization *but I'm not sure how to do this or how to get started. ANY help would be *appreciatd. Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks so much, http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/CPAN/perl/pod/perlopentut.html is a place to start. Perl comes with a buttload of documentation and there are a lot of books out there as well to get you started. It is much easier to answer a specific question than to ask an incredibly broad question that a book would do a better job of answering. e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing perl
Nikola Janceski [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *actually you want 5.6.1 (stable release) you can find it on perl.com at *http://perl.com/pub/a/language/info/software.html http://www.cpan.org/src/ is the appropriate and correct address to refer people to when they are looking for the perl source code and http://www.cpan.org/ports/ when they are looking for binaries. *there should be release notes, but there are many bug fixes and new *functionality added, nothing spectacular, but if you knew the differences *between Perl4 and Perl5 this is half as much of a change. All source distributions have 'Changesversion number' to detail the new features as well as the perldelta.pod. And the changes between 5.6.0 and 5.6.1 can be seen by doing 'perldoc perldelta' under the surprisingly obfuscated header Summary of changes between 5.6.0 and 5.6.1 at the very top. e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing Perl Help
Scott E Svendsen [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: * *I am currently running perl 5.6.0, I am trying to install 5.6.1 with the *-Dusethreads option enabled. * *I have read the install file, and followed it to the letter, except using: *sh Configure -Dusethreads * *Then I answer all the questions it gives me and says it is installed. *Except there is no indication it did anything. Doing a perl -v gives me *the same old version. Doign a search doesnt turn up any new 5.6.1 *folders. You probably need to type 'make' to build it, 'make test' to check it and 'make install' to install it. If these don't look familiar I can guarantee you didn't install it. http://www.cpan.org/misc/cpan-faq.html#How_install_Perl_source e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: regex to parse HTML files
sachin balsekar [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *Hi ppl, * *I have one HTML file per News story...i got to fetch some data (first *few lines) out from a HTML file and display it as an abstract for the *said story... * *The HTML file have the following issues... * *1. There could be a HTML table at the very beginning..(can i strip out *the whole table..i mean TABLE /TABLE ...but may cause probs in *nested tables...(trying regex for the same)... * *2. I need to pick up first 1/2 lines..( i look for a '.' and pickup *data) but fails for acronyms/ numbers.. (Ltd. or 5.8% etc) * *These two issues solved could get the almost thru with the prob.. http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=HTML-Tree e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing Perl Help
Scott E Svendsen [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: * *I am currently running perl 5.6.0, I am trying to install 5.6.1 with the *-Dusethreads option enabled. * *I have read the install file, and followed it to the letter, except using: *sh Configure -Dusethreads * *Then I answer all the questions it gives me and says it is installed. *Except there is no indication it did anything. Doing a perl -v gives me *the same old version. Doign a search doesnt turn up any new 5.6.1 *folders. You probably need to type 'make' to build it, 'make test' to check it and 'make install' to install it. If these don't look familiar I can guarantee you didn't install it. http://www.cpan.org/misc/cpan-faq.html#How_install_Perl_source e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CGI-Perl list
Naika - EV1 [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *Can someone direct me to the cgi-perl list for beginners? I'm trying to find *it but am unable. If anyone has the subscribe headers for it that will do as *well, thanks. http://lists.cpan.org/showlist.cgi?name=beginners-cgi e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: net::smtp and timestamp?
Jonathan Chan [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *howdy, * *when using sending an automated email using net::smtp the time stamp is not *set correctly and the date line is not included in the headers. * *is there a way to include the correct time stamp in the headers? http://www.perl.com/doc/FAQs/nt/perlwin32faq4.html#How_do_I_send_email_from_Perl_fo should illuminate the errors in your script. e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Book suggestion
Anidil Rajendran-Raj [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *Hi team, * *I am unix admin trying to learn perl. How is the book LEARNING PERL BY *EXAMPLE by Ellie Quigley http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/CPAN/perl/pod/perlfaq2/Perl_Books.html Though that book isn't mentioned specifically, I recall that Dave Cross helped to improve the book immensely and is a good book from what I've heard. e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem With Make on Solaris 8 (Date-Calc-5.0)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *I received the following error while attempting to install Date-Calc-5.0 on *Solaris 8. Date-Calc-4.3 behaves the same way. However, I'm able to do a *make successfully of both packages on Solaris 2.5.1. gcc is installed on *both platforms. Could you please shed some light on what is causing this *error. Solaris 8 ships with perl. However, unless you have the Forte C/C++ compilers you should simply leave this perl alone as the system uses it for kstat and go get gcc and perl from http://www.sunfreeware.com/ which will install them both in /usr/local whereupon you can change your PATH to make the /usr/local perl first. e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: bleedperl , Berkeley DB-4, BerkeleyDB
zentara [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *I'm trying to install the newest version of *Berkeley DB, and get the perl module *for it going. * *I'm getting an error saying bleedperl not found. * *All my searches on the net seem to indicate that bleedperl *is the latest version; but the BerkeleyDB docs say *it will need only perl version 5.004; and I have v5.6.0. * *What is bleedperl? If you don't know what it is you probably shouldn't be using it. Bleedperl is the uncooked and unfinished development of Perl 5.8 which isn't stable and not usable for anyone but the perl porters. Go get perl-5.6.1 and install it and delete the bleedperl version. e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: bleedperl , Berkeley DB-4, BerkeleyDB
zentara [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: * *All my searches on the net seem to indicate that bleedperl *is the latest version; but the BerkeleyDB docs say *it will need only perl version 5.004; and I have v5.6.0. Oh..I misread that. If http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=BerkeleyDB is the module you are using and received the 'bleedperl' error you should probably email the author since that error probably is not a feature intended for mass distribution. e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: bleedperl , Berkeley DB-4, BerkeleyDB
Dean Theophilou [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *Hello: * * I'm interested in finding out more about what's planned in Perl 5.8. Could *someone direct me to the proper site? Thanks. perldelta.pod in the 5.7.x distributions will tell you or you can find it http://www.hut.fi/~jhi/perldelta.pod e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CPAN
Shaun [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *I have a Linux Box and I am attempting to install perl 5.6. I can get onto CPAN but it wont find *the perl 5.6 distro. When I search I see it but i can't find the 'keyword' that it will like to http://cpan.valueclick.com/src/ 5.6.1 is the latest stable release. e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: modules install
Eric R. Jones [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *I had problem installing mods and getting them noticed. Since you didn't mention anything at all about the problem, I'll suggest you read the FAQ at http://www.cpan.org/misc/cpan-faq.html e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Password Generator
Mike [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *IS there a perl password generator out there? CPAN has a scripts section http://cpan.valueclick.com/scripts/admin/generate.random.passwords e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: snmpwalk with net::snmp
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *i've gotten to be somewhat comfortable using net::snmp. at the very least *i've used its get_request and set_request methods. however an oid used by *cisco seems to need to be called using 'snmpwalk' rather than a get or set *request. net::snmp has a get_next_request and a get_table, but i'm *confused if these are really the methods that would suit my purposes. is a *true snmpwalk capable with net::snmp? http://cosi-nms.sourceforge.net/nwi-progs.html e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Date
Mayank [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *Hi all * *Is there a module/or some function to do calculations on date e.g. if *today is 1st March, and i want the date for previous day (i.e. 28th or *29th Feb) Date::Calc http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Date-Calc Date::Manip http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=DateManip If you can be bothered to view the front page of CPAN you'll see several search engines listed to help you in the future or you might consider google. http://www.perlfaq.com/cgi-bin/view?view_by_category=dates%20and%20times may also prove helpful. e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Perl FAQ
Jenda Krynicky [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: * *The question is what should a beginners FAQ look like? I bet if *anyone started writing one he would find himself banging his head *against the wall and crying RTFM RTFM RTFM ... pretty soon. Probably like a mailing address with an Eliza back-end that will reply with the appropriate answer from the FAQ that people invariably will not read. I lost count of the number of times I've replied to a question at cpan with a FAQ URL only to have the guy email me back to ask the question directly following the one I pointed him at...the one I made sure followed it so it would get read. http://www.perlfaq.com/ is one of the better resources in the way of FAQs for beginners. e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Perl Binaries question
Nikola Janceski [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *Currently I am running perl 5.6.1 on SunOS 5.6, *I am going to be using SunOS 5.8 also very soon. * *I was wondering if I should do another install of perl on the new 5.8 *machine, with all the modules I use, or if I should have no problems using *the perl I built on the 5.6 machine on the 5.8 (accessed through a common *filesystem) Theoretically you could use the perl binary on both 5.6 and 5.8 but doing this through automount or NFS is not ideal if your only reason for doing this is being too lazy to install a new version and modules on a local filesystem :) http://www.sunfreeware.com/ has a solid perl5.6.1 package for 5.8 and read the section about Bundles on the CPAN FAQ at http://www.cpan.org/misc/cpan-faq.html as it illustrates how you can use CPAN.pm to make duplicating system installs of perl rather easy. e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: Perl classes
Johnson, Shaunn [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *My management is thinking about signing up the department *for Perl classes (maybe introduction to Perl). * *Is there a list / company that has such a site? I went to *Perl.org and did a search and didn't see much in the *way of Perl classes and criteria. You might try http://www.perltraining.org/ e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CPAN locks up my hard drive.
Shaun [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *I have used the CPAN network at least 6 times and every single time, about 2 hours after I finish *I my hard drives lock up and the system goes down. It is a Maxtor 7200 RPM 30G drive, on Red Hat *7.2. *It has a 1.2 Ghz processor and loads of memory. * *Can anyone think of anything that I could do to stop this problem? What does this have to do with CPAN? e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Perl Module for Server Statistics
Andre' Solomon [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: * *I'm looking for a Perl Module that would allow me to determine some basic server statistics such as uptime, CPU usage per process, total CPU usage, disk usage, etc. Can someone point me in the right direction please. If you are using Solaris Orca http://www.orcaware.com/orca/ or, if not, cricket http://cricket.sourceforge.net/ e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ^M's in file
Tanton Gibbs [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *This question is asked many times in similar forms...is there a perlfaq for *this? If not, we need to look into submitting one. http://history.perl.org/oneliners/filters/dos2unix.html e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: perldoc under HPUX
Michael Fowler [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 10:23:40AM -0500, Messier, Jean-Francois wrote: * * This might seem like a beginner's question, but I saw several * messages ending with something about perldoc. I tried this command under * HP-UX v11, and first it did not work. I found where the program actually * was, and retried. I then got a reply saying something linke Superuser must * not run /opt/perl5/bin/perldoc without security audit and taint checks.. * Nice, but this server is used only by root user, and is *not* a production * system in any way. Do I really need to create a dummy user ID just to use * this function, or can I still use it ? * *Unless actually administrating the system, you should always run things as *a non-privileged user, regardless of whether or not the box is in a *production environment. So, to answer your question, yes, you should create *a dummy user ID, and consistently use it. This works great in a textbook, not at 3am when some programmer is getting their beauty sleep and their program has crippled the system leaving you with single user and no other choice. perldoc -U will get you what you want. Also, http://perldoc.cpan.org/ works great in a pinch. e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: which mailing list?
Marc Grober [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *I was using CPAN on aix433 with perl5.6 and was installing MD5 when I *got this error * *make:cc_r: Command not found *make: *** [MD5.o] Error 127 That's not really enough information to go on. You should probably check your path to make sure your c compiler is in there as well as the makefile to see if everything is ok there as well. *To which of the dozens of perl lists should I post to find out what *happened? There isn't an AIX list but http://lists.cpan.org/ has a bunch of others to choose from. e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: installation under aix
Marc Grober [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *I have installed perl 5.6.1 under aix via an lpp from the Bull *distribution. The config.sh file indicates that CC='cc_r' but *there is no such file. If I create a link from /usr/local/bin/gcc *the make runs but it bombs with compiler errors. Does anyone know: *a) if aix requires perl to be compiled with something other than gcc *(seems I had seen that somewheres) b) where to file the configure *command in the lpp c) whether there is some way to set gcc to do the *make successfully and d) which of the now gazillion lists is intended to *address such issues (I have already posted to aix-l) http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/CPAN/perl/README.aix.html e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: get list from database, email list
Johnson, Shaunn [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth:
*Hi again:
*
*This is my first attempt at trying to pull info from a
*database ... but this is my goal:
Examples are likely the best and fastest way to get a handle on something
like this. I use the following hack to select cpan mirrors out of the db
and mail out a notice to the mirrors that match the criteria. It's ugly,
but it works :)
I also highly recommend the DBI book http://dbi.symbolstone.org/ and all
the examples from the DBI book are on-line
http://examples.oreilly.com/perldbi/
e.
#! /usr/local/bin/perl -w
use DBI;
use strict;
my $dbh = DBI-connect( your connect info here );
my $sth = $dbh-prepare(
SELECT name,contact,retiredate,status
FROM yourtable
WHERE retiredate='' AND status='good'
);
$sth-execute();
while ( my ($name,$contact,$retiredate,$status) = $sth-fetchrow_array ) {
open(SENDMAIL, |/usr/lib/sendmail -t -f your\@email.address) ||
die(can't fork SENDMAIL: $!);
print SENDMAILEOT;
To: $contact
Subject: Grod send mail to you
Dear $name,
blah blah blah
EOT
close (SENDMAIL);
}
$dbh-disconnect;
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