Re: Daemon Process

2005-05-17 Thread Tim Stephens
On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 01:57:28PM +0530, Gowtham wrote: Hi All, Thank you very much for the feedback. Now, suppose I want to write a daemon for Unix in C whose job is to monitor other daemons and restart dead daemons. The daemon may take the list of such daemons to monitor from a file. I

merging annotations with PDF

2005-05-13 Thread Tim Stephens
I've been given some PDF's that contain annotations, and I need to print them out. The problem is that the annotations rely on covering up the contents of the original PDF. Are there any utilities available that will allow me to incorporate the comments into the pdf and hence get them to print

Qpopper Configuration

2005-05-06 Thread Tim Stephens
Dear List, I'm trying to set up my pop server. I got it working in the past, but I've since changed my mail configuration. Mail is forwarded by procmail into a mbox in my home directory $HOME/Mail/newmail. I've set the MAIL environment variable to the path to this directory. I set up qpopper

perl dumped core--- trying to find the cause.

2005-04-30 Thread Tim Stephens
Sometime yesterday, perl dumped core on my server. I've been trying to work out what actually went wrong. I have two things that I know are running in perl: 1) ddclient, which keeps my ip address synced with dyndns.org and 2) spamassassin. The only info that I can find is a mention in the

Re: spam alert

2005-04-13 Thread Tim Stephens
On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 03:29:03AM -0400, Robert wrote: my email address was sending out spam, [snip] IP address 204.152.184.73 was trying to send emails and make a connection with my mail server, which of course I blocked. 204.152.184.73 resolves to freebsd.isc.org. what gives?

set-uid bit: where am I going wrong?

2005-04-11 Thread Tim Stephens
I'm trying to use a script I wrote to copy files from one directory to another (as part of my backup regime). Unfortunately, because they are in my webserver directory, some of the files don't belong to the user that I run the script as (via cron). I can run the script with sudo, so I know