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2002-07-01 Thread Nigel Mills
Hi I'am having difficuly using a simple form-mail.pl using sendmail.pm located on a new Novell web server. Although the perl script is working as I get a Thank you reply back in the browser, it doesn't send the form data back to my e-mail address. The problem seems to be with the sendmail.pm

the /?something=somethingelse

2002-07-01 Thread Kyle Babich
How is that done where there is no filename included in the url, just the directory and then the variables? Thanks in advance. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Executing cgi from html

2002-07-01 Thread Scot Robnett
You can do what you are saying, with the exception that you will not be able to keep the .html extension without a reconfiguration of the web server. Most likely, you will have to change it to .shtml or .shtm, depending on your web server and OS. Check out this documentation on server side

What's wrong with this?

2002-07-01 Thread Kyle Babich
open(text,text.txt) or die (error: text.txt failed\n); #line 17 while(text) { print $_; } close(text) or die(error: close text.txt failed\n); #line 22 bash-2.05$ perl -Tcw index.pl Unquoted string text may clash

Re: What's wrong with this?

2002-07-01 Thread Sp0oKeR
Try to use(UpperCase): open(TEXT,text.txt) while(TEXT) Best Regards, Quem nunca pirateou que atire o 1º disco, que eu atiro uma cópia === Sp0oKeR - NsC Analista Linux / Security [EMAIL

Re: Printing the Content-type

2002-07-01 Thread perl-dvd
Look up the wget package for Linux. or you can try the combination of these: HTTP::Request; LWP::UserAgent; Regards, David - Original Message - From: Octavian Rasnita [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 28, 2002 6:25 AM Subject: Printing the Content-type

Re: What's wrong with this?

2002-07-01 Thread Kyle Babich
Ok, thank you, but now I'm having another problem with this: open(TEXT,text.txt) or die (error: text.txt failed\n); while (TEXT) { my $text = TEXT; } close(TEXT) or die(error: close text.txt failed\n); print EndOfHTML; $text EndOfHTML It tells me $text

Re: Help! which are the correct parameters?

2002-07-01 Thread perl-dvd
my $stuff = qq^ here is some stuff and more stuff to boot stuff for me and stuff for you ^; $stuff =~ s/stuff/money/gs; # g says match all occurrences # s says treat $stuff as a single line Regards, David - Original Message - From: Octavian Rasnita [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Re: Including External Pages

2002-07-01 Thread perl-dvd
open(FH, /usr/www/domain/faq.txt); # for read, for write, for append local $/ = undef; # slurp mode (allow for shoving the whole file into a scalar) my $faq = FH; # slurp the whole file into this scalar. close(FH); - Original Message - From: Kyle Babich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: What's wrong with this?

2002-07-01 Thread Andy Lester
open(TEXT,text.txt) or die (error: text.txt failed\n); while (TEXT) { my $text = TEXT; } It tells me $text requires explicit package name but I do give it 'my' so why is it still giving me that error? The $text has fallen out of scope. Lexical variables

Re: What's wrong with this?

2002-07-01 Thread Sp0oKeR
Try while (my $test=TEXT) { commands ... } Best Regards, Quem nunca pirateou que atire o 1º disco, que eu atiro uma cópia === Sp0oKeR - NsC Analista Linux / Security [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: CGI.pm v/s roll-your-own [WAS:] Displaying Problems

2002-07-01 Thread Ovid
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Curtis, You make some good points. I will be leaving in about 10 minutes for a vacation, and wont be back until Monday, so if you wouldn't mind sending an email to the list Monday as a reminder, I will submit the code then. Thanks, David David, Just a

Re: CGI.pm v/s roll-your-own [WAS:] Displaying Problems

2002-07-01 Thread perl-dvd
Curtis, Thanks for the reminder, I'll get it up shortly after I get home from work. About 5:00pm Mountain Time. David - Original Message - From: Ovid [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 11:39 AM Subject: Re: CGI.pm v/s

Random images on a bulletin board

2002-07-01 Thread Troy May
Hello, I'm trying to make a random signature for use on bulletin boards. Images are fine, they are set sizes. But I'm trying to make it display Flash files also. These Flash files default to full-screen when there are no size limits set. I can't figure out how to adjust this script to

Form.pm

2002-07-01 Thread perl-dvd
Well, I'm a little bit behind schedule because the home page for Form.pm just got erased (long story). Anyway, I just setup a backup system on my server now so I'll have a weeks worth of daily backup's (ya, I know I should have had this before). But attached are the main functions of

Re: Random images on a bulletin board

2002-07-01 Thread Connie Chan
Emm. I don't exactly know what do you want, but try this if that's what you want: make an array to put your IMG files, make another array to put your SWF files. make a random 0, 1 to choose if you want to output as IMG or SWF if IMG, random a file from the IMG array, if SWF, random a file

Re: perl dbi insertid

2002-07-01 Thread Felix Geerinckx
on Mon, 01 Jul 2002 00:56:27 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Donnie Jones) wrote: I am using this command to get the latest value for the auto_increment field in the mysql database: $field_insertid = $sth-{'insertid'};

Re: About Perl OO Orthodoxy

2002-07-01 Thread Felix Geerinckx
on Sun, 30 Jun 2002 19:58:09 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Drieux) wrote: so as not to conflate the usual 'religious wars' about OO v. Proceduralism - forgive me - I needed some emotional reassurance - I guess, that this was consistent with the expectations and standards of other OO coders

RE: updating a file in place is almost working

2002-07-01 Thread Anders Holm
Hi. 1/ What platform are you on? 2/ Are you the System Administrator? 3/ There is on Solaris and Linux usually a script that would do log rotation. There would not be a need to take down the process, but rather do the following (assuming you have the rights): mv logfile logfile.n n = number

RE: split

2002-07-01 Thread Nigel Peck
Ernie, I'm assuming that @offline is an array of lines, so: foreach $offline (@offline) { print MAIL p$offline\n/p; $offline =~ m/(.{4}\..{4}\..{4})/; $nodes=`/home/etucker/jvlresolve.pl $1`; print MAIL p$nodes\n/p; } Give it a try, I haven't tested it again, the /g

Re: calling shell script from perl

2002-07-01 Thread David vd Geer Inhuur tbv IPlib
Hi, To open a file for reading do : open(CRONJOB, /home/queue/test.sh); @data = CRONJOB; close(CRONJOB); print @data; To execute a file do : system(/home/queue/test.sh, $return); or: exec(/home/queue/test.sh); Regs David Hi guys, I need to call shell executable

RE: updating a file in place is almost working

2002-07-01 Thread Anders Holm
Hi Beth. Not sure how it is on the S/390 (nice box, BTW), but any usual logrotate script I've come across would send a SIGHUP to the appropriate process, yes. Check the cron jobs of the root user, and there should be a cron job for this. Then you could run another cron job to do the processing

RE: Obtaining a slice of unique values from an array

2002-07-01 Thread Shishir K. Singh
on Sun, 30 Jun 2002 12:08:23 GMT, Dan Fish wrote: What is the most efficient (or at least AN efficient :-) way of obtaining a slice from an array wherein the slice contains only unique values found in the array? See perldoc -q duplicate -- felix This is the example d cited in

Re: About Perl OO Orthodoxy

2002-07-01 Thread drieux
On Monday, July 1, 2002, at 02:02 , Felix Geerinckx wrote: on Sun, 30 Jun 2002 19:58:09 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Drieux) wrote: I guess, that this was consistent with the expectations and standards of other OO coders Have you already studied Conway's book? I presume you mean:

Re: updating a file in place is almost working

2002-07-01 Thread drieux
On Monday, July 1, 2002, at 05:05 , Anders Holm wrote: Here's an example of such a script, snipped from a SOLARIS box.. Should be able to adapt this to your needs.. ;) the alternative of course is to implement the venerable syslogRoller into perl - and then open up the holy debate about

Re: creating module

2002-07-01 Thread drieux
On Monday, July 1, 2002, at 08:17 , anthony wrote: Hi, is there a good website to create module if so can you refere me to it Have you started with the traditional perldoc perl and checked out the internal documentation of how to do this? perldoc perlsub perldoc

Re: Quick Question

2002-07-01 Thread Andy Lester
I have an array of directory files and I want to search via the date the directory was created. Is there a function or dash option that handles this? Yes, they're the unary file operators: http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.6.1/pod/func/X.html xoxo, Andy -- 'Andy Lester[EMAIL

grab user to last modify file

2002-07-01 Thread Kipp, James
anyone know of a way to determine the user who last accessed or modified a file ? thanks -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: grab user to last modify file

2002-07-01 Thread Kipp, James
SunOS 5.8 Thanks -Original Message- From: Andy Lester [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 12:40 PM To: Kipp, James Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: grab user to last modify file anyone know of a way to determine the user who last accessed or modified

Re: Need some help

2002-07-01 Thread Mariusz Wyrozebski
You,re right! But I had some hours, so my solution is : - #!/usr/bin/perl $file = $ARGV[0]; open(HANDLE, '' , $file); @lines=HANDLE; foreach $line (@lines) { @test=split(#include,$line); print $test[0] ; @plik=split(#include ,$line); @plik1=split(,$plik[1]);

RE: grab user to last modify file

2002-07-01 Thread Kipp, James
anyone know of a way to determine the user who last accessed or modified a file ? In general, anything you want to know about a given file is available thru the stat() function. http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.6.1/pod/func/stat.html anything BUT what i need above. -- To

Re: grab user to last modify file

2002-07-01 Thread Andy Lester
thru the stat() function. http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.6.1/pod/func/stat.html anything BUT what i need above. Sure, you want these two elements: 4 uid numeric user ID of file's owner 5 gid numeric group ID of file's owner alester@flr4[~/play]$ more owner !/usr/bin/perl

RE: grab user to last modify file

2002-07-01 Thread Nikola Janceski
I have yet to learn who cometh and touched my files while I sleep. All OSes are equally bad a this. You only have owner of a file, and that's it! Lemme guess.. you have something chmod 777 and you want to know who changed the webpage main page to some porno pic? Best thing to do is setup groups

RE: grab user to last modify file

2002-07-01 Thread Kipp, James
thru the stat() function. http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.6.1/pod/func/stat.html anything BUT what i need above. Sure, you want these two elements: 4 uid numeric user ID of file's owner 5 gid numeric group ID of file's owner this only states the current ID and

RE: grab user to last modify file

2002-07-01 Thread Nikola Janceski
The only other method is to find the Modification time of the file, and check the login times and then go inny meany miney moe. -Original Message- From: Nikola Janceski Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 1:05 PM To: 'Kipp, James'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: grab user to last modify

Re: grab user to last modify file

2002-07-01 Thread Andy Lester
4 uid numeric user ID of file's owner 5 gid numeric group ID of file's owner this only states the current ID and GID OWNER, not last WHO last modified the file Ah, that. You can't do that. Unix doesn't support that sort of thing. If you can't get it from, say, ls, then

Quick Debug question

2002-07-01 Thread Nikola Janceski
I have my 2000+ line script cranking away for the past 3 hours. I am pretty sure that it's caught in an infinite loop somewhere. I have it running in debug mode (yes it should have been done 2 hours ago even in debug mode). I can stop the process, but I want to dump all the variable info to

Result of xmessage

2002-07-01 Thread Vitor Carlos Flausino
Hi, my perl code is as simple as #!/usr/bin/perl if (system (xmessage -default No -nearmouse -buttons Yes:2,No:3 Do you realy want to run Daily TVG?) == 0){ } print $?; The result is 26112 when i press Yes and 25856 when I press No (). If I run from the command line, the result

RE: grab user to last modify file

2002-07-01 Thread Kipp, James
I have yet to learn who cometh and touched my files while I sleep. All OSes are equally bad a this. i think it can be done in NT with AdminMisch module, but in *nix i have no idea You only have owner of a file, and that's it! Lemme guess.. you have something chmod 777 and you want to

RE: grab user to last modify file

2002-07-01 Thread Kipp, James
You can't do that. Unix doesn't support that sort of thing. If you can't get it from, say, ls, then Perl sure can't figure it out, either. I thought that was the case, but figured somebody may have a done it. I guess i will have to go to plan b like this: 1. run as a deamon 2. monitor

RE: grab user to last modify file

2002-07-01 Thread Nikola Janceski
interesting file...What is it? why not give write permission to the directory, but no write to the file? Then if someone wants to modify it they MUST remove the file and create it themselves. Then your deamon can be run as root and always chmod the file to no-write. -Original Message-

RE: updating a file in place is almost working

2002-07-01 Thread Rice, Elizabeth A.
Well, I think I figured it out. When I reviewed the examples in Perl Cookbook more closely I realized that the array has to be big enough to hold all the lines that go back into the existing file. If we run our script shortly after midnight, parsing for date, most of the lines will go to the

Monthly posting ststistics - June 2002

2002-07-01 Thread Felix Geerinckx
Monthly posting statistics for perl.beginners - June 2002. From 2002-06-01 to 2002-06-30 there were 1895 articles posted (92208 lines) by 273 authors, giving an average 6.94 articles per author, and an average article length of 49 lpa. The average number of articles per day was 63. There were

Weekly posting statistics - 26/2002

2002-07-01 Thread Felix Geerinckx
Weekly posting statistics for perl.beginners - week 26 of 2002. From Monday 2002-06-24 to Sunday 2002-06-30 there were 448 articles posted (21756 lines) by 119 authors, giving an average 3.76 articles per author, and an average article length of 49 lpa. The average number of articles per day

RE: grab user to last modify file

2002-07-01 Thread Kipp, James
interesting file...What is it? the .profile and some others that our dept uses why not give write permission to the directory, but no write to the file? Then if someone wants to modify it they MUST remove the file and create it themselves. Then your deamon can be run as root and

RE: printf question

2002-07-01 Thread Nikola Janceski
I don't know what accuracy you need.. but: #my $data = 3.420; my $data = 3.424; $data = sprintf (%11.3f, $data); $data = sprintf (%11.2f, $data + scalar($data =~ /[1-9]$/) / 100 ); printf (%11.2f\n, $data); -Original Message- From: Ned Cunningham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

Re: grab user to last modify file

2002-07-01 Thread Shawn
ok folks, this really was NOT worth this many emails... http://sabernet.home.attbi.com/papers/Solaris.html Someone turn up the content quality on this list back up to it's usually high level... On 07/01, Kipp, James said something like: SunOS 5.8 Thanks -Original Message- From:

RE: printf question

2002-07-01 Thread Nikola Janceski
correction on my 4th line. $data = sprintf (%11.2f, $data + (scalar($data =~ /[1-9]$/) 0.005) ); -Original Message- From: Nikola Janceski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 2:55 PM To: 'Ned Cunningham'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: printf question I

RE: printf question

2002-07-01 Thread Ned Cunningham
The first one worked great thankyou -Original Message- From: Nikola Janceski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 3:10 PM To: Nikola Janceski; 'Ned Cunningham'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'

Net::IMAP

2002-07-01 Thread Mat Harris
Am i right in thinking that Net::IMAP is a relatively new module? I have been trying to use it and the documentation is really poor. Matthew Harrison Internet/Network Services Administrator www.genestate.com This e-mail (and any attachments) is confidential and may contain personal views

Re: printf question

2002-07-01 Thread Felix Geerinckx
on Mon, 01 Jul 2002 18:32:27 GMT, Ned Cunningham wrote: Can anyone tell me how to print the following data so that it rounds up even though it shouldn't $data = 3.424; [...] I need it to round up even if it is only .001 ? use strict; use POSIX qw(ceil); sub roundup {

RE: printf question

2002-07-01 Thread Timothy Johnson
You could always try adding .999 to the value before sprintf()ing it... -Original Message- From: Ned Cunningham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 11:32 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: printf question Hi, Can anyone tell me how to print the following data so

Re: Net::IMAP

2002-07-01 Thread Felix Geerinckx
on Mon, 01 Jul 2002 19:20:21 GMT, Mat Harris wrote: Am i right in thinking that Net::IMAP is a relatively new module? I have been trying to use it and the documentation is really poor. You may have more luck with Net::IMAP::Simple, especially if you have been using Net::POP3. See

Re: printf question

2002-07-01 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Jul 1, Ned Cunningham said: Can anyone tell me how to print the following data so that it rounds up even though it shouldn't Use the POSIX::ceil() function, instead of some crufty solution. use POSIX 'ceil'; printf WRFILE %11.2f, ceil($data); -- Jeff japhy Pinyan [EMAIL

Re: printf question

2002-07-01 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Jul 1, Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan said: On Jul 1, Ned Cunningham said: Can anyone tell me how to print the following data so that it rounds up even though it shouldn't Use the POSIX::ceil() function, instead of some crufty solution. use POSIX 'ceil'; printf WRFILE %11.2f, ceil($data); My

Re: Net::IMAP

2002-07-01 Thread Mat Harris
yes i have seen the simple version but the functionality seems minute in comparison At 19:29 01/07/2002 +, Felix Geerinckx wrote: on Mon, 01 Jul 2002 19:20:21 GMT, Mat Harris wrote: Am i right in thinking that Net::IMAP is a relatively new module? I have been trying to use it and the

df hang inside script

2002-07-01 Thread Deb
Hey Folks, Recently I had a problem where a *nix system NFS was hung on a server which had gone away, but the client hadn't umounted the filesystem. Later, this caused a script in cron to fail, in that a df command inside the script never completed, and instead it hung, causing the script to

Random images on bulletin boards

2002-07-01 Thread Troy May
Hello, I'm trying to make a random signature for use on bulletin boards. Images are fine, they are set sizes. But I'm trying to make it display Flash files also. These Flash files default to full-screen when there are no size limits set. I can't figure out how to adjust this script to

Install Module Spreadsheet::WriteExcel

2002-07-01 Thread Mok T.Y.-r15382
I encountered difficulty in installing Module Spreadsheet::WriteExcel and desperately need your guidance. Below is what my system have displayed while using nmake15 utility. D:\perl\SPREAD~1.37dir Volume in drive D has no label. Volume Serial Number is E4CE-279D Directory of

Embperl and DBI on perl5.6

2002-07-01 Thread Anthony Dunne
Hi, real newbie here, I am trying to configure a website on Redhat7.3 with perl 5.6 and Apache. Both were installed in default locations during server install of Redhat7.3 The website needs HTML-Embperl and DBI and I have installed both of these from the rpm's. httpd.conf contains: SetEnv