Replying to Alan, Scott wrote...
you need to be root to start it.
use sudo
sudo apachectl start
Which nicely explains the message that Alan saw:
httpd: could not open error log file /private/var/log/httpd/error_log
httpd starts up with root privileges, opens the log files, which are
Hi Ronald,
To find make Martin suggested %wich make or %where make. On my machine make
gnumake are where they should
be, thougth bash can not find wich or where? Are this to tools part of the
developer tools?
They are not on /usr/bin, where else can they be? Otherwise where can I get
Hi Robin,
On Friday, 20 July 2001 at 3:45AM you wrote:
I've included the script below for perusal, it basically kills any
apps which are open at the time of invokation - I got fed up doing it
manually and didn't want to write an Applescript to do it. It works
as expected when run
Maybe this will stop the OT stuff: maybe it'll only make it worse!
Well that still doesn't explain how to create a group
I've inserted a chunk of a nervous nelly step-by-step set of instructions
I wrote a while ago on a macfixit_forum thread below this message. niutil is
probably
I'm trying to build XML::LibXML and XML::LibXSLT on OS X 10.1.1 and I
have no luck doing it.
I already installed libxml2 Version 2.3.14-1 with Fink.
Not good enough I'm afraid: that fink package must be fairly old.
From the Makefile.PL for XML::LibXML
die XML::LibXML needs libxml2
On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 09:43:27AM -0400, Alexandre Enkerli wrote:
Did anyone try building a System Service (in the Services submenu) to
apply Perl regular expressions on selected text?
Kevin van Vechten has a Perl Service for Mac OS X that works fine with
Jaguar (unlike his SSHAgentServices
On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 09:55:18AM -0700, David Wheeler wrote:
On Friday, October 11, 2002, at 08:36 AM, Phil Dobbin wrote:
Is this indicative of the Developer Tools not being installed?
I don't know about that, but if the developer tools weren't installed,
there'd be no compiler --
On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 10:13:48PM +0100, jonasbn wrote:
I am currently working on a bingo game in Perl (its a long story).
The next step in the development is to be able to produce bingo plates
and I have been given some code dependent on PDFLib from a kind soul.
I have downloaded the
Chris Nandor wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ken Williams) wrote:
Yeah, that looks like exactly what I want. Now if I can just
get Mac::Carbon working under 10.1.5! =) Still haven't had any
luck with that, it looks like a gcc 2/3 issue to me.
Yeah, I dunno. :/ I've not had any
Puneet Kishor wrote:
I am able to build SQLite 2.7.6 from source without any problem. But,
DBD::SQLite 0.23 (which comes with its own SQLite) croaks.
Interestingly, it seems to build and install ok, many tests are passed,
then 'make test' (regression testing) fails. Running dbish shows
Hi again,
h... if you (I too) can't see it on search.cpan.org, how do you
know 0.24 exists? I searched on the minimalist seargent.org, and on
Google too... nothing about 0.24. Is there a secret place? ;-)
Hmm, not very sEcReT; Matt Sergeant has a use.perl.org journal
Rich Morin wrote:
FWIW, I managed to get the data source part working, though somebody is
making FAR too many calls to numberOfRowsInTableView (:-). My current
issue is setting a fixed-width font for the table's data cells. This:
$acell = $col-dataCell();
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 06:03:32PM -0700, Nathan Torkington wrote:
Please download and test the perl 5.8.0 distribution available from:
http://nathan.torkington.com/tmp/perl5.8.0gnat1.dmg
Done, and much appreciated. (The machine on which I have
just installed your dmg was giving all sorts of
On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 09:51:34AM +0900, Thilo Planz wrote:
I have been playing around with Camelbones a little and placed my
results on SourceForge:
http://perl-pad.sourceforge.net/
I would like some feedback, basically to see if the thing installs on
other computers than my own and
Thanks for the info Thilo: just in case someone else wants to
do the remapping.
Find PerlPad, control click and select Show Package Contents. Open up
Info.plist file inside the Contents directory (double clicking will
probably crank open Property List Editor, which is a pretty good tool
for
Hi Marco,
In particular, I followed the suggestions regarding the Makefile of
Text::Iconv that I found in the message
http://archive.develooper.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg04392.html, but that
didn't help (it didn't even help wrt to Text::Iconv, which still cannot
find the libiconv, despite
Marco Baroni wrote:
However...
Most of the rest of the dependencies are pretty much sorted these
days: at
least once you've got libxml2 and libxslt and have their perl wrappers
installed (watch the version of XML::LibXML, as per earlier messages.
It broke
some time soon after 1.51 for
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 10:46:05AM -0600, Ken Williams wrote:
Awesome - I'm now adding a little perl script around it to get the
absolute path and to activate the Finder:
Nice script: I think you can probably save some execution time
by incorporating both finder calls in the same osascript
Hi Berndt,
you wrote...
simple question, how can I copy file type, creator and icon along with a file.
#!/usr/bin/perl
use File::Copy;
copy(/private/var/root/Desktop/xxx/test1.doc,
/private/var/root/Desktop/yyy/test2.doc);
copies just the file, but the resulting
Sounds like you might be heading in the POE direction:
http://poe.perl.org/
Worth a look if you haven't already considered this option.
Cheers,
Paul
Hi Chad,
you wrote...
http://sourceforge.net/projects/expat/
Unfortunately, I don't seem to be able to figure out how to install
expat. I downloaded it from ftp://ftp.jclark.com/pub/xml , where it
includes a makefile. However, my degree in music composition didn't
involve much
Hi Mark,
you wrote...
Permission denied at /Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables/write.cgi
All the permissions for each of these directories are 755. Something is
a miss. So what can I do?! I'm very confused.
There's your problem. 755 will not allow the www user (or whatever
you've
Hi David,
you wrote...
While running a psync backup, I get lots of warnings such as these:
[[warnings deleted]]
Should I worry about these? The command I'm running is
While I don't recognise all the warnings that you showed at least some of them
can be removed by replacing Dan's
Hi Mike,
you wrote...
I'm trying to install libwww-perl-5.69 on my OSX machine to run under
Perl 5.8.0.
Try using 5.72 (which is on CPAN now). I installed it this morning and
all tests passed without problem. (This is with perl 5.8.1, but I'd bet
you'll get similar results with
Hi Conrad,
you wrote...
I jumped too soon. I tested the MacOSX::File install under Panther and it
failed with these errors:
I tried using gcc 2.95 instead of 3.3 and got further but still errored... I
don't have time right now to try and debug it but maybe later.
If you check the
John wrote...
The trouble is that it takes an age for the libraries to be loaded, the
events to be compiled and for the dialog to appear:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use MacPerl;
$phone = MacPerl::Ask(Enter your phone number:);
Hmm, must depend crucially on the machine: on this dual 1G thing
I'm
Hi Gohaku,
you wrote...
I have a question about the following script:
use Term::ANSIColor;
print color(red on_white), Danger, Will Robinson!\n;
print color(red on_white), Danger, Will Robinson!\n;
print color(red on_white), Danger, Will Robinson!\n;
print color(reset);
Has
Hi John,
you wrote...
Can someone please tell me if there's any reason not to write files
in /private/tmp rather than in /tmp/501/TemporaryItems ?
drwxrwxrwt 29 root wheel 986 18 Jan 21:49 tmp
drwxr-xr-x 13 jdwheel 442 18 Jan 21:30 TemporaryItems
So far as jd and
On Mon, 29 Mar 2004, Chris Devers wrote:
Unfortunately, I get the same error you do when I try to run it:
$ ./osatest.sh
## Component Manager: attempting to find symbols in a component alias of type
(regR/carP/x!bt)
This is some sort of issue with Toast; googling for the
Hi Joseph,
you wrote...
It's easy to replicate from the Finder. You highlight the files and
double click holding shift down.
Also, you can highlight, then control click getting the menu and then
select open.
Thanks for the explanation, but my machine seems to be on a rather
Ned Day asked,
how on earth do i unsubscribe from this?
Try reading the mail headers of any message to the list:
List-Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cheers,
Paul
Hi ~wren,
you wrote...
Sorry if this is off-topic, but I seem to recall
sometime fairly recently (less than a year, more than
a few weeks) someone mentioned a way to autofind the
path to perl on the shebang line so you don't need to
hardcode the path. I can't seem to find the post in
Hi Richard,
you asked...
I'm about to write a number of fairly simple perl scripts. They'll be
reading xml files. Unfortunately they've got to be installed on a
client machine that uses 10.1.5, owned by a fairly untechnical user.
I've always had control of the environment before,
Hi Vic,
you wrote...
I've got a .libnetrc file in my home directory. It reads
{
'nntp_hosts' = [ news.dacor.net ],
'smtp_hosts' = [ mail.dacor.net ],
'pop3_hosts' = [ mail.dacor.net, mailstore.bgsu.edu ],
}
I've thrown that file into my home directory as
Hi John,
you wrote...
my question is, how can I create the same sort of script which will
use HTML::Tidy?
Both the module and the library are installed and running OK on my
Mac, but I can't seem to get it to work, in fact I can't even figure
out from the documentation how to get
Joe asked,
As an aside, does anyone know how to turn spotlight off of a volume?
It immediately starts creating an index and it is causing my
comnputer to run hot and make everything else run slow.
System Preferences = Spotlight = Privacy
Just drag in what you don't want indexed.
Cheers,
Hi Joe,
... I wrote a little program that creates a new directory each time
(ie, 2005-08-09) and does a full backup using psync to the directory.
My question: In the event of a hard disk failure, will I be able
to boot from a full copy in a directory? How would I be able to
recover?
Hi Joe,
I've used the Disk Utility and created a copy that boots. Thank
you it was fun. I haven't done the cron thing yet or the psync
over it.
One question, it appears like everything on the restore copy is
exactly the same, however the total file size and the total number
of files
Jonathan Levi wrote:
#!/usr/bin/env perl
# [comments omitted]
print reverse ;
drj2:learningperl4 jonathan$ p052e1.pl
1
2
3
3D
2
1
I'm pretty sure that you're just seeing an artefact of executing in
the terminal (ie it's a display problem, rather than a problem
Hi Chris,
Go play with it, if you have an Intel Mac. Let me know if you find
anything wrong, and let me know soon, since I have less than a week
left
with this Intel Mac.
The module (Mac-Carbon-0.75) was fine through make on my intel Mac
(modulo all the deprecated warnings of course,
Hi again,
Yes, AppleEvents/t/event and AppleEvents/t/desc were both failing
with the same error message:
===
AppleEvents/t/eventNOK 2# Failed test 'require '$Bin/
helper.pl';'
# in AppleEvents/t/event.t at
Hi Chris,
Thanks for all the input, I got a lot of small bugs fixed, in tests
and
docs mostly, and a small one in code. No major code changes, no
Intel-specific code changes.
Smooth as silk here, both with and without MAC_CARBON_GUI set.
Cheers,
Paul
Hi Adam,
sounds like the symptoms you'd get if the value you're sending to R
has a newline character hanging on the end. Perl will do the
conversion to an integer when required [1], but if you're passing
such a thing to R it'll probably get grumpy. Just chomp the line
before doing the
Ende asked...
Why?
$a = 1 2 3;
1 2 3
split / /, $a;
[1, , 2, 3]
split , $a;
[1, 2, 3]
Using a single space as the string on which to split triggers a
special case: from perldoc -f split
specifying a PATTERN of space (' ') will
Hi again,
Ugh: please ignore my previous example, which split on the empty
string by mistake (it's even evident in the script you quoted).
Thwack...
Let me try and pull this together: splitting on a string containing
a single space is special in a do what you probably mean way: it's
Hi Michael,
I think the problem here is that Math::GMP doesn't look in /usr/local/
lib to find the libgmp* libraries, so you need to give it a helping
hand.
Just modifying the Makefile.PL file so that instead of
'LIBS' = ['-lgmp'], # e.g., '-lm'
you have
'LIBS' =
Michael Barto wrote:
If you have downloaded the module instead of using CPAN, look at
the file INSTALL in the module. If should tell you what to do:
#./configuration
#make
#make check = VERY IMPORTANT!!
#make install
Hmm, doesn't look very typical!! Most perl modules don't have an
Jay Savage wrote:
I can't for the life of me figure how to get it to stop putting
the '-w' flag on the shebang line. It also seems to occasionally eat
my 'use warnings;' when it does it.
I've just tried to replicate this in TextMate (selecting Tidy via
the Perl bundle with a use warnings;
Laurence Haynes wrote:
I'm trying to understand how to use the Mac::Files NewAlias
function. I have not found any code examples and I'm struggling.
The NewAlias function creates a filehandle. How do I create an
alias file from the alias filehandle?
I'm not surprised: Chris Nandor
Hi Noah,
I am not able to get CPAN to reload an index. I cant seem to
figure out why I cant reload the CPAN index? Even after updating
the CPAN URL list - I am still unable to fetch things from servers.
The output you showed (in all its glory!) might result from not
having FTP_PASSIVE
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