Re: CPAN

2001-06-08 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Michael Risser [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *> *>If you are trying to grab modules from ftp.cpan.org the path has apparently *>changed from what CPAN thinks it is. You need to go to *>$PERLROOT/lib/perl5/$VERSION/CPAN and edit Config.pm. Change the urllist *>value from ftp://ftp.cpan.org/CPAN to ftp

Re: [META] Rants (was:Re: space)

2001-06-08 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Karen Cravens [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *> *>I personally hate (well, dislike, anyway) getting duplicates. *>(Although Peg can probably discard based on message-id, and *>procmail certainly can... I haven't "disliked" it enough to actively *>take steps.) procmail, for those using unix, can d

Re: [META] Rants (was:Re: space)

2001-06-08 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Karen Cravens [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *>On 8 Jun 2001, at 23:24, Elaine -HFB- Ashton wrote: *> *>> If you don't know how to manage your mail or aren't willing to learn then *>> you probably don't have any business joining a mailing list and then *>> whin

Re: Understanding Randal's answer

2001-06-09 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Randal L. Schwartz [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *>> "Peter" == Peter Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: *> *>Peter> Securing a system today is like being Sigourney Weaver in *>Peter> "Alien"... *> *>In what way? You nuke the site from orbit, it's the only way to be sure. e.

Re: search.cpan.org is down is there a mirror?

2001-06-11 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Hill, Ronald [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *>Hi All, *> *>It seems that some stupid fool has messed with the search function of CPAN. *>Does anyone know if there is another site like this? Read the front page at http://search.cpan.org/. And, the CPAN FAQ also lists several search engines besides se

Re: search.cpan.org is down is there a mirror?

2001-06-11 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Brett W. McCoy [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *>On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Hill, Ronald wrote: *> *>> It seems that some stupid fool has messed with the search function of CPAN. *>> Does anyone know if there is another site like this? *> *>You can access it via the command-line: *> *>perl -MCPAN -e 'shell'

Re: Installed Modules

2001-06-13 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Dave Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *> *>Using ExtUtils::Installed like; Thank you for attributing the FAQ :) I can't say enough good things about Alan Burlisons oft overlooked ExtUtils modules that have been in the core since 5.005 as I recall. There are lots of fun features to them and I wh

Re: module installation

2001-06-20 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
[Rajib Mukherjee] [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *>when i install GD.pm will all the sub modules automatically be installed. eg *>GD::Graph GD::Image etc. No, you'll have to install them separately. Also, be sure to read the README in the GD documentation as on some platforms installing GD and the l

Re: What's a good pre-built binary Perl for Windoze?

2001-06-22 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Jude Suszko [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *>I'd like to get my feet wet with a decent pre-built binary Perl *>before I try building my own from sources. At the moment http://www.cpan.org/ports e.

Re: Need Perl/CGI/DBI/mysql Examples

2001-06-17 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *> *>I swear I wont be stealing anyones code for my own, all I want is just a *>"road map" for my own educational purposes. If anyone wouldn`t mind *>sharing or could point me in the right direction, it would be *immensely* *>appreciated! I was in the

Re: Logo for learn.perl.org

2001-06-24 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Grant McLean [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *> *>A beginner could look at that code snippet, make a good guess at *>what it does and think to themselves 'hey that looks pretty easy *>- why don't I take a deeper look'. Why not a pearl with training wheels? :) getting text into a small area like that a

Re: :Graph - Script archive for beg.

2001-06-26 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Prabhu, Vrunda P (UMC-Student) [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *> *>>Another question, would anyone be interested in helping me create a *>>script/snippet archive geared towards newbies? *> *>I would be interested in careting something like that. What did you have in *>mind? CPAN has a scripts archi

Re: Administering Perl

2001-06-28 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
tree [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *>I have a question on administering perl.. *> *>I recently upgraded perl on the box from 5.6 to 5.6.1 and now i'm seeing *>alot of these "Subroutine redefined" messages. what is a "subroutine *>redefined" message?? *> *>I also had to reinstall alot of CPAN modules

Re: module install

2001-06-29 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Hal Wigoda [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *>I'm trying to install a module as root *>from cpan *>and it is looking for my ncftp program *>and it is not found. *> *>What do i do now?? *> *>I'm using mandrake 7.2 on my linux server. Configure CPAN.pm to use ftp elaine@chaos /home/chaos/elaine> perl -M

Re: Perl backward compatibility question

2001-07-06 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Ela Jarecka [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *>Hi folks, *>Inspired by some discussion on that list I'd like to swap my 5.004 version *>of Perl to a newer one. *>The only Perl guru that we have in our company is for some reason very *>reluctant to help me.. He murmured *>something about incompatibility

Re: modules question

2001-07-30 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *>Dose anyone know of a exsiting Perl module that will test to see what tape drives are available on Unix box? *> *>I looked through the some of the CPAN stuff but didn't find anything that looked like what I might need. None that I'm aware of as i

Re: Load Average Perl Script

2001-08-03 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Graham White [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *>Does anyone have an example of a perl script that constantly loops checking *>the machines loadaverage, if the loadaverage is higher than a certain number *>then the script will shutdown and restart a program like apache. Thanks! If this is on Solaris, I

Re: perl debugger

2001-08-03 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Ruth Albocher [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *>hi all. *>Is there any good stable graphic debugger for perl? There are several, depending on your platform. Go out and get "Perl Debugged" by Peter Scott as it covers the Perl debugger and the tools very well. http://www.bookpool.com/ has excellent pri

Re: Executing the kill command from within an suid script.

2001-08-06 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Jeff Rouse/NCO/CEtv [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *> *>Basically the process I wish to send a kill signal to is a redirector for *>squid. The process is owned by the squid user. The kill signal makes the *>redirector dump statistics about itself to a file. I want to run a script *>from my cgi-bin

Re: Executing the kill command from within an suid script.

2001-08-07 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Jeff Rouse/NCO/CEtv [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *> *>I have been an SA and DBA for 7 years and have worked in a lot of different *>environments for several companies and I didn't go into apoplectic shock at *>my suggestion :-) Look at the suidperl source code, you will :) suid, even if root is not

Re: Upgrade woes!

2001-08-07 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *>Hi all, I wonder if someone can shed any light on this for me. *> *>I run a Solaris 8 machine (sparc) at work and had problems installing DBI for perl 5.6.0 - for future reference (for other newbies) if your perl has come precompiled on your system

Re: list archives

2001-08-07 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Mooney Christophe-CMOONEY1 [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *>Got a question related to this list: *> *>I went to the specified archive because i wanted to find an older post, but *>it looks like the list only contains this month's postings. Does anyone *>know where the older posts are? Are they lost

Re: list archives

2001-08-07 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Mooney Christophe-CMOONEY1 [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *>Yes, i know--that's where i went in the first place, but 'dateindex' only *>has posts from May 29-June 1, and those are repeated over and over again. Are you sure you looked at that second URL? It begins some time in May and lists everything

Re: Frustrated installing modules!?!

2001-08-07 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
John Way [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *>I am truly frustrated that I can't even find any documentation on how to *>install a module from, say, CPAN! I have activestate's installation of Perl You must have missed the FAQ link on the front page of CPAN. http://www.cpan.org/misc/cpan-faq.html also,

Re: NIS, NIS+, or Standalone

2001-08-08 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Baartmans, Hans [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *>I am trying to write a little script to determine is a UNIX system is using *>NIS, NIS+, or a standalone system. Any suggestions on how to approach this? NIS has a few defining features like /etc/defaultdomain and /var/yp/* NIS+ is almost never used a

Re: Module Administration question

2001-08-15 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Steve Starer [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *>Thanks for the quick reply! I think my greater question is how to *>remove/uninstall any module. This all got started when I began working *>through the Perl DBI book. The very first example program bombed when it hit Nope, there isn't any function that

Re: how do I know what modules are installed

2001-08-15 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Joe Bellifont [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *> *>How do I know if it is already installed and *>how can I get a list of all installed modules http://www.cpan.org/misc/cpan-faq.html#How_installed_modules e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: arguments with a module

2001-08-16 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Gibbs Tanton - tgibbs [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *> Here is one way to get what you want: *> *>our @ISA = qw(Exporter); *>our @EXPORT = (); *>our @EXPORT_OK = qw(myfunc); Just to point this out since the other examples had a subtle yet important difference that Gibbs got right. DO NOT USE @EXPOR

Re: Trouble with CPAN

2001-08-17 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
patrick hall [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *>Error reading from *>/root/.cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt: *> *>My suspicion is that 01mailrc.txt has issues. Should I *>just delete it? Well, assuming that you are root given the path, delete the file manually, check the mirror you have in your con

Re: PERL / UNIX File manipulation

2001-08-17 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
David Gilden [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *> *>mycomputer% perl -ews foreach $files (<./*>) {rename($file,"new-$file");} *> *>Am I on the right track? To pain, yes :) Check out File::Find and you might also learn the joys of your shell with sed and awk :) http://www.perlfaq.com/cgi-bin/view?view_

Re: Problems with "perl -MCPAN -e shell"

2001-09-07 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Joey Smith [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *>Recently, many of my systems have begun acting very strangely when I try *>to use CPAN's "shell" mode. I have no command completion, no history, *>and when I try to exit with "Control-D", it just shows ^D... Can you define 'strangely' a little more descript

Re: Wierd: SUN problem or Perl problem ?

2001-09-07 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
koff [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *>Hi, *> *>I just reinstall my SUN 2.6 and reinstall back Perl using *>perl-5.6.1-sol26-sparc-local.gz binary. It's work find and without *>hasle. *> *>But I encounter a problem to install DBI and Data-Show-Table module (And *>of course DBD) . For instance during "m

Re: Problems with "perl -MCPAN -e shell"

2001-09-07 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Joey Smith [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *>Thanks for the input. *> *>"Strangely" means what I said in the latter sentence...no command *>completion at all, no history, and control-d does not work. *> *>I have reinstalled Bundle::CPAN several times, and even did a force on *>Term::ReadKey and Term::R

Re: Problems with "perl -MCPAN -e shell"

2001-09-07 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Joey Smith [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *>Actually, your question led me in the right direction... *> *>I just used CPAN to install Term::ReadLine:Gnu, and everything seems to *>work just fine now! I guess Term::ReadLine doesn't use GNU readline by *>default, or something... That's odd as Term::Rea

Re: Wierd: SUN problem or Perl problem ?

2001-09-08 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
koff [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *> *>Andrian, *> *>Thanks for your reply. I couldn't find stdlib.h in /usr/include . But I *>already installed libstdc++-2.8.1.1-sol26-sparc-local , is it the same *>one ? stdlib.h isn't installed?! As far as I know that isn't even Suns code, rather part of SysV. I

Re: CPAN questions

2001-09-17 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *>Can someone please explain to how to keep perl version upgrades from breaking everything? a:) Don't upgrade :) Wise man say "No broke, don't fix." *>Most typically, it's a CPAN upgrade that installs a newer version of perl i.e. 5.005_03 to 5.6.1.

OS X and Perl [ was Re: CPAN Problems ]

2001-09-17 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Chris Zubrzycki [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *> *>CCCMD = cc -DPERL_CORE -c -g -pipe -pipe -fno-common *>-DHAS_TELLDIR_PROTOTYPE -fno-strict-aliasing -O3 *> *>weird. how hard is it to get changes like these into the source tree so *>it can be automatic? http://lists.perl.org/showlist.cgi?name=ma

Re: installing Mail-tools module in windows 2000

2001-05-27 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Hendrik Van Belleghem [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *>> *>> That will only work with ActiveStates Perl. ActiveState == Microsoft. *> *>I quote : *>"I am trying to install the MAIL::tools module in windows 2000." *> *>Therefor I can assume he's using ActivePerl... *>Last time I check ActiveState wasn

Re: Perl Certifications and some help

2001-05-29 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
King, Jason [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *>Sanchit Bhatnagar writes .. *> *>> Is there something like a "Perl Certified Professional" or *>>does there exists some other credible certification you can *>>get for perl. *> *>competency Yes, well, how does one judge who is competent when one is not

Re: Starting with perl...

2001-05-29 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Collin Rogowski [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *>You find a very complete set of documentation on www.perl.com. *>Here is a direct link to a "getting started" document: *> *>http://www.perl.com/pub/doc/manual/html/pod/perl.html Good golly I think my long dead father is fresher than that page which da

Re: Different releases of Perl for Win

2001-05-30 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Joel Divekar [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *> *>Can any body give me URLs of the different sites where I can get different *>flavours of Perl and their speciality. http://www.cpan.org/ports It lists all of the ports that we are currently aware of by platform. e.

Re: On Beginners' Mindsets, Part I

2001-05-30 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Scott Thompson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *> *> While I wholeheartedly agree with the above statement, might I suggest *>others not to take this statement TOO literally. For myself, I have learned *>just as much about Perl -- sometimes MORE -- by "bucking" the tried-and-true *>methods to dis

Re: unknown CPAN variables

2001-05-31 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Paul Cotter [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *>Can someone explain the following. The file /etc/inputrc certainly has the 'wrong' lines in it, but I am loathe to delete them without understanding what I am doing. (mmm, I wonder where I screwed up..) It Pays to read the documentations kids. >From t

Re: Installing modules in a different file

2001-05-31 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Mark Ross [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *>Hi all, *> *>I was wondering if someone could point me in the direction where I could *>find out how, if even possible, to install Perl modules in a different *>directory (like /cgi/module_library/). I don't have root access to the *>server. Is there a way ar

Re: syswrite issue

2001-05-31 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Manish Tiwari [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *>how big a file can be created using syswrite ..it fails generally over 2G Depends on your OS and if your Perl is compiled with large file support. If I remember right, largefile support is, by default, enabled on platforms that support it in versions 5.6

Re: syswrite issue

2001-05-31 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Brett W. McCoy [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *> *>Are you using it on an x86 system? It's only 32 bits, and I think can *>only support up to 2G files. Solaris 2.6 instroduced large file support by allowing files up to 2GB. With 7 and up in 64-bit mode it is unlimited. Solaris x86 is still 32-bit

Re: syswrite issue

2001-05-31 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Brett W. McCoy [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *> *>I think Solaris 8 & higher, the limit is something like 4 or 8 terabytes. *>For all intents and purposes, it's unlimited. Nope, 7 is good too..first 64-bit Solaris. And if you need one file that's 4 terabytes, you need something more than a sparc :)

Re: Installing Perl on AIX platform

2001-06-01 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Swappan Das [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *> *>At this point I am lost what should I do *> *>I tried to run the command and it fails: *>sh configure "c" *> *>I tried to look for AIX README files on CPAN, I could not find it. It should be in your source tree but it's also on the web at http:/

Re: Msql-MySQL < 1.20

2001-06-02 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Johnathan Thibodeau [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *>Does anybody know where I can find an old copy of the Msql-MySQL<=1.20 *>module? CPAN only has copies dating back to v1.2208. BackPAN ftp://onion.valueclick.com/perl/backup.pause/ ftp://onion.valueclick.com/perl/backup.pause/authors/id/J/JW/JWIE

Re: perl -MCPAN -e shell / ppm / vpm - do what exactly?

2001-06-04 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Oliver Glass [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *>I have activestate perl installed on NT and used to use VPM for *>installing packages. Recently, I discovered 'perl -MCPAN -e shell' when *>using cygwin and found it works on NT also. I know ppm is something to *>do with packages too... http://www.cpan.or

Re: Beginners Training books

2001-06-04 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Craig Moynes/Markham/IBM [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *>Programming Perl is really quite good. Tons of info about the internals *>...Chapter 5 right now for me ...lots to go. *> *>Perl in a Nutshell is a good desk side reference once you have a handle on *>the language. The Nutshell sucks if only

Re: CPAN and Proxy

2001-06-05 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Geraint Jones [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *>Does anyone know if and how to use CPAN over a proxy server? *>I've been trying everything I can think of. A good start would be reading the documentation that comes with the module via 'perldoc CPAN' or http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/CPAN/perl/CPAN.html#W

A gentle reminder about jeopardy quoting

2001-06-05 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Craig Moynes/Markham/IBM [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *>Please try and be more descriptive with the subject lines. *> *>- *>Craig Moynes *>[EMAIL PROTECTED] A gentle nudge to please: 1) trim off all of the message that is not germane to your response. In you

Re: A gentle reminder about jeopardy quoting

2001-06-05 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Mark Folse [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *>--- Eduard Grinvald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: *>> Umm, let's get back to perl, please... Etiquette is nice, but is *>> hardly the point of this list. Perhaps not, but making email easy to read and reply to is certainly a good goal to have. Lotus and MS and

Re: one last attempt?

2001-06-05 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Luinrandir Hernson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *> *>does anyone see why this wouldn't print to my index.htm file cause if i can't get this simple code to work, how can i get the whole bloody counter program to work would someone please just give me the freaking answer on how to make this work

Re: any lists for perl for NT/W2K admin?

2001-09-21 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Edouard Beaugard [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *> *>if anyone knows of one please let me know. http://lists.perl.org/search.cgi?cat=Win32 e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: build perl on Solaris

2001-10-01 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Peter Scott [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *> *>Maybe, but you haven't shown the error which preceded the lines above which *>would have told us... Or checked the testers results for libnet at http://testers.cpan.org/ ... e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-

Re: encrypt, decrypt module suggestions

2001-10-03 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Jeff Loetel [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *> *>Suggestions appreciated. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/09/26/crypto1.html e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Diff between 2 PDF files

2001-10-04 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
padula, domenic [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *>Does anyone know how I would perform the equivalent of a UNIX "diff" command *>between 2 PDF files using Perl? In adobe parlance this is called "compare". I don't know of any Perl utility that does this sans Acrobat 5+ but the SDK might be of some int

Re: modules

2001-10-05 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *>On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, TS wrote: *> *>> I use perl 5.005_03. *>> how do I find out what modules are installed ? *> *>$perl -MCPAN -e autobundle *>This will first search for all installed module. Then it will search the *>cpan archive for updates... *>Per

Re: CPAN repository

2001-10-19 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Mike Singleton [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *>** Reply Requested by 10/20/2001 (Saturday) ** *> *>I have mirrored CPAN on my local ftp server... how would I congifure the shell in CPAN to look at this new repository. We are behind a firewall at work and only some manchines can get out to the Inter

Re: Call Center Software

2001-10-20 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Joe Echavarria [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *>Hi there, *> *> Does anyone of you know of a Call Center Software *>written perl. A complex one that can handle call *>statistic and all the things involve in a call center. I'm not sure what you mean by call center since that can mean a lot of differ

Re: local repository

2001-10-26 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Mike Singleton [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *>How to I point the Perl CPAN shell to a local respository to search and install modules? The CPAN.pm man page covers this. Also, see CPAN::Site. e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] NT mailing list

2001-11-08 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Daniel Falkenberg [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *>Hi all, *> *>I am really sorry to bother all of you with this one. But I am about to *>start working on a new project using Active Perl but before I begin I *>need to know some information on Win2k/NT4. My question is does any one *>know of any wind

Re: Off-Topic (200%) - Where are you from?

2001-11-09 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Richard S. Crawford [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *>Business travel sucks. I spent a week in Boston. Or so I'm told. Instead *>of seeing historic sites or meeting interesting people, I saw my hotel *>room, the convention room floor, and the street between them. I got to go *>to one restaurant

Re: reading a module's code

2001-11-14 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Etienne Marcotte [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *>Well *> *>My computer here doesn't have perl on it (work computer), my laptop *>doesn't have internet. So I'm stuck. I'll try to install it from my home *>desktop then and look at the pm and save the .pm on a floppy. I never *>used CPAN yet... nor ppm

Re: Modules

2001-11-16 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *>On Nov 16, Ray Murphy said: *> *>>When using modules, is it better to say 'use *>>Foo::Bar;' rather than 'require'. Also I've noticed *>>that some people put their 'use' or 'require' *>>statements in subroutines and not at the beginning of *>>the p

Re: Modules

2001-11-16 Thread &#x27;Elaine -HFB- Ashton'
Bob Showalter [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *> *>require() is handy inside an eval { } block to trap whether a module *>is installed or not. Many CPAN modules use this technique. Like I said, I can't think of any good reasons for using require. e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For

Re: CPAN Modul

2001-11-16 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Rietsch Thierry [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *>Hello *>How can I deinstall a Modul, which I install before with CPAN? You use ExtUtils::Installed to name the files and then delete them. #!/usr/local/bin/perl use ExtUtils::Installed; my ($inst) = ExtUtils::Installed->new(); my $module = "Date::Chri

Re: Install DBD with CPAN

2001-11-17 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Rietsch Thierry [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *> *>Did anybody now what i must do? *>System: OpenBSD 2.9 Read the INSTALL doc. e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Unix passwd rules

2001-11-19 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Daniel Falkenberg [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *> *>I understand this is a little off topic, but it essetially this question *>has alot to do with Perl. My question is what are the curent rules for a *>Unix passwd? i.e How many characters? Also has any one had anything to *>do with the module Unix:

Re: delete a line of a file

2001-11-26 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Jorge Goncalvez [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *>Hi, I would like to parse a file and delete the entire line if it begins with *>subnet. *>How can I do this in Perl? http://history.perl.org/oneliners/filters/after_pattern.html e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional command

Re: Trouble installing modules with CPAN, or changing @INC

2001-11-26 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
KEVIN ZEMBOWER [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *> *>Any suggestions on cleaning up this mess? Can I just delete *>/usr/bin/perl and link it to /usr/local/bin/perl, or is there a more *>elaborate, better solution? If this is a Solaris 8 box then I'd recommend leaving /usr/bin/perl alone and adjusting y

Re: Cpan Modul creation

2001-11-28 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *>| Does anyone know where i can find a documentation to make my Modul *>| CPAN conform? *> *>http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-make.html That is not for a beginner and I'm not sure many seasoned pros would even be quite that masoch

Re: modules installed with default install on IRIX 6.x

2001-11-28 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
maarten hilgenga [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *>Hi all, *> *>After installing Perl 5.005.03 from the CPAN port on a Silicon Graphics *>running IRIX 6.3 without any problems, I tried installing an openssl library. *>During this installation I found two errors: *> *>can't locate module strict.pm & *

Re: How do I send a HTML error to a user because he didn't fill in one of the fields via a HTML form?

2001-11-29 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
JUAN AMORE [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *>$form_data = $ENV{'QUERY_STRING'}; *> *>$form_data =~ s/%([\dA-Fa-f][\dA-Fa-f])/pack ("C",hex ($1))/eg; do something like unless (param('foo')) { 'print out some HTML here describing the error' exit; } This will check for the parameter you want t

Re: email attachments

2001-11-29 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Jeff Norville [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *>Looked through CPAN but didn't find anything specifically dealing with *>receipt of attachments. *> *>I basically want to parse an attachment for a PGP key. Suggestions? http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Mail-Audit e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMA

Re: CPAN usage

2001-11-30 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Maxim Berlin [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *> *>MP> 2. The downloaded mirror should be used with the cpan module where *>MP> must i define the path to local mirror or how can i work with cpan and *>MP> local mirror *> *>for cpan module, you can define custom site(s), like *> 'urllist' => [q[ftp://yo

Re: Hello, how to tell if I have perl DBI?

2001-12-01 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *> *>Perl dbi and *then* another choice is perl DBD which is for mysql. Does this *>mean I need both or just one? As I am only interested in using mysql with perl You need both the DBI and the DBD for mysql http://www.cpan.org/misc/cpan-faq.html#Wher

Re: Is A File Encrypted?

2001-12-06 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Curtis Poe [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *> *>This probably is not the most helpful comment, but one way to tell *>if something is encrypted is to compress the data using Archive::Zip *>or something similar. I don't know, offhand, what the threshhold is, *>but if a file significantly compresses the

Re: Is A File Encrypted?

2001-12-06 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Ray Murphy [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *>Hello, *> *>Want to make sure I'm not missing anything here. My *>task is to see if a file looks like it's encrypted. *>I'm splitting the path/filename/extension via *>File::Basename and checking to see if the extension is *>..pgp or .gpg. I'm also checki

Re: Is A File Encrypted?

2001-12-06 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Curtis Poe [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *> *>If a compression tool leaves large patterns in the data, it's a poor *>compression tool. You can read more about this here: *>http://perl.plover.com/Huffman/huffman.html. Compression reduces entropy which, if used before encryption, can make the decryp

Re: Installing BioPerl on OSX

2001-12-09 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Nathan Bowen [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *>Can anyone help with this error. I get it after perl Makefile.pl *>Should I reinstall somewhere else or can I get the perl.h header file? If /System/Library/Perl/darwin/CORE/perl.h doesn't exist it is quite possible and likely you have a munged perl inst

Re: What's installed?

2001-12-12 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *>Hi, *>I'm guessing this has been asked before, but is there a way to tell which *>modules you have installed? My system guys are picky about new ones, so *>I would like to know what we already have... http://www.cpan.org/misc/cpan-faq.html#How_insta

Re: Cpan.pm

2001-12-12 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Daniel Falkenberg [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *>Hello All! *> *>Just playing around with Cpan.PM and I have come accross an error that I *>am a little unsure about... *> *>When I complie the following code... Add use CPAN; at the top of your script. e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTE

Re: get list from database, email list

2001-12-14 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
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

Re: perldoc under HPUX

2001-12-19 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
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 di

Re: which mailing list?

2001-12-19 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
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 c

Re: installation under aix

2001-12-19 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
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 anyon

Re: CPAN and Perl

2001-12-20 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Daniel Falkenberg [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *>G'day All, *> *>I was just wondering if any one here has any experience with download *>Perl CPAN modules from a Perl script. I have looked at CPAN.pm but am a *>little confused by this. *> *>I have tried the following... *> *>#!/usr/bin/perl -w *> *

Re: ^M's in file

2002-01-09 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
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 com

Re: Perl Module for Server Statistics

2002-01-22 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
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

Re: CPAN locks up my hard drive.

2002-01-24 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
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. *> *>C

Re: OT: Perl classes

2002-01-28 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
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 c

Re: how to install the module in cpan?

2002-01-28 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
yun yun [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *>I've downloaded some modules from cpan, but how I *>should install them so that I could use them in my *>perl program? http://www.cpan.org/misc/cpan-faq.html e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Perl FAQ

2002-02-05 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
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

Re: Perl Binaries question

2002-02-05 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
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 *>

Re: snmpwalk with net::snmp

2002-02-08 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
[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

Re: Date

2002-02-08 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
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/sea

Re: modules install

2002-02-10 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
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

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