Re: how to install DBI

2003-03-23 Thread Ron Savage
On Sat, 08 Mar 2003 22:28:09 -0500, Scott R. Godin wrote: Hi Scott I've written a very nice module-reporting script that helps me to stay on top of installed modules and easily see when they require updates from CPAN for bugfixes. http://www.webdragon.net/mr/ Great program! I made a small

Re: Installing without root or shell access

2003-03-23 Thread Varanasi
Varanasi wrote: I have switched webhosts. I cannot get DBI and DBD working correctly from a local directory on that host. (Readyhosting does not have installed -- and will not install -- DBI or DBD:ODBC.) I suspect the difficulty stems from the fact that I cannot install directly on the

Firebird RDBMS and Perl 5.8

2003-03-23 Thread Bob X
What would I need to get Firebird working with Perl 5.8 on Windows? Bob

RE: Installing without root or shell access

2003-03-23 Thread Brian Spindler
I believe all you have to do is put the DBI.pm and ODBC.pm in your @INC variable somewhere and then you can call and use them as if they were already installed. So upload them to a direcotory somewhere on your new webhosting company and then add : push(@inc,

Re: Installing without root or shell access

2003-03-23 Thread Michael A Chase
On 23 Mar 2003 15:52:38 - Varanasi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Varanasi wrote: I have switched webhosts. I cannot get DBI and DBD working correctly from a local directory on that host. (Readyhosting does not have installed -- and will not install -- DBI or DBD:ODBC.) I suspect

Re: Strange security problem...

2003-03-23 Thread Jared Still
Personally, I use a password server daemon that supplies passwords to authenticated users, encrypted with RC4 as they traverse the network. That way I only need keep the passwords in one file. No passwords on the command line, which is handy for automated stuff. Since it is written in Perl (

returning values from a function

2003-03-23 Thread Colette Lamm
What am I missing in the customer_functions.pm file's functions in order to return true back to the main program? It is erroring on the use and require stating that customer_functions.pm doesn't return a true value.. Also, which style is better use customer_functions; or require

Re: returning values from a function

2003-03-23 Thread Jonathan Leffler
Colette Lamm wrote: What am I missing in the customer_functions.pm file's functions in order to return true back to the main program? It is erroring on the use and require stating that customer_functions.pm doesn't return a true value.. Also, which style is better use customer_functions; or

MySQL DBI Problem.

2003-03-23 Thread gregg
I have a Perl cron job that reads emails off a pop server once a minute and stores them in a MySQL database on a remote machine. I logged onto the MySQL server today and performed a select * from messages where received 2003032200; Zero records were returned. I did some more