Re: hard links on HFS+ (now even further off topic...)

2002-11-17 Thread Peter N Lewis
The basic attitude of Unix programmers is that they must have root access in order for their program to work "correctly." Which is exacerbated by silly things like needing to become root in order to open a "privileged port", requiring the programmer to jump through hoops to write a server, ofte

Re: Darwin darwin or darwin6.0

2002-11-17 Thread Peter N Lewis
At 11:39 -0800 16/11/02, drieux wrote: [jeeves: 1:] perl -MConfig -e 'print "$Config{osname} \n"; ' As for how this gets set - it gets set when your version of perl is built for that specific OS. which in turn is stored in Config.pm, typically somewhere like /Library/Perl/darwin/Config.pm o

Re: hard links on HFS+ (now even further off topic...)

2002-11-17 Thread Wiggins d'Anconia
Heather Madrone wrote: At 10:38 AM 11/17/2002 -0500, Wiggins d'Anconia wrote: Heather Madrone wrote: At 03:29 PM 11/17/2002 -0500, William H. Magill wrote: We're saying much of the same thing, however, this problem which you describe is not an OS or vendor level problem and not even an ACL

Re: PerlMagick dyld errors

2002-11-17 Thread Peter N Lewis
If you do ensure your fink Trees: has the unstable/main in it, and do: fink selfupdate-cvs then I think it will install imagemagick-nox for you without any problems. Unfortunately, perlmagick-pm still seems to be a version of imagemagick back and so it needs to be installed manually. Anyway, l

Re: hard links on HFS+ (now even further off topic...)

2002-11-17 Thread Lou Moran
On Sunday, Nov 17, 2002, at 17:25 America/New_York, Heather Madrone wrote: It seems silly to have one account for me as a human being and another for me as God. Worst advice ever. See also: # rm -rf / mydirectory (Note space) This is a Windows thought. And even n Windows you should have a

Re: hard links on HFS+ (now even further off topic...)

2002-11-17 Thread Heather Madrone
At 10:38 AM 11/17/2002 -0500, Wiggins d'Anconia wrote: >Heather Madrone wrote: >>At 03:29 PM 11/17/2002 -0500, William H. Magill wrote: >>>We're saying much of the same thing, however, this problem which you describe is >not an OS or vendor level problem and not even an ACL problem. It's a >prog

Re: hard links on HFS+ (now even further off topic...)

2002-11-17 Thread Wiggins d'Anconia
Heather Madrone wrote: At 03:29 PM 11/17/2002 -0500, William H. Magill wrote: We're saying much of the same thing, however, this problem which you describe is not an OS or vendor level problem and not even an ACL problem. It's a programmer/admin attitude problem, exemplified by the constant

Re: hard links on HFS+ (now even further off topic...)

2002-11-17 Thread Heather Madrone
At 03:29 PM 11/17/2002 -0500, William H. Magill wrote: >We're saying much of the same thing, however, this problem which you >describe is not an OS or vendor level problem and not even an ACL problem. >It's a programmer/admin attitude problem, exemplified by the constant stream >of questions as

Re: hard links on HFS+ (now even further off topic...)

2002-11-17 Thread William H. Magill
On Sunday, November 17, 2002, at 11:09 AM, Kee Hinckley wrote: Used properly, ACLs can create a system, that is much more secure, because you can restrict access to certain parts of the system to specific processes that need to use that sub-system. However, with the exception of the OpenBSD fo

Perl Package Problem

2002-11-17 Thread Vic Norton
Hello all, I am having a problem installing a package of my own. I am at a complete loss as to what the problem is. The details are appended. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Regards, Vic = The details === I check syntax (in BBEdit) of a Perl script "sppd0A.pl". I get

Re: hard links on HFS+

2002-11-17 Thread Kee Hinckley
At 12:40 AM -0500 11/17/02, William H. Magill wrote: "Real ACLs" on the other hand are quite extensive -- see Digital's VMS for one set. For example one can identify random individuals as authorized to read a file, and a completely different set of individuals to write it. "Real ACLs" have no

building modules that use Class::Struct

2002-11-17 Thread m31
I've build a linked list implementation in perl, which works well, but I now want to wrap it in a package so it can be more modular. The problem is, when I wrap it in a package I get alot of errors about 'not being able to locate blah via package blah'. I think the problem is because Class::Str