It works with 5.8.0 under Red Hat 9.0, but not 5.8.0 running under Red Hat
8.0.  Are there any workarounds or fixes for this?

Joshua Scott 
Security Architect, CISSP 
626-568-7024



-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Grazzini [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, June 30, 2003 7:28 PM
To: John W. Krahn
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Modify process name


On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 05:11:01PM -0700, John W. Krahn wrote:
> Joshua Scott wrote:
> > Whenever I view the processes (ps -ef) running on my Linux box, my 
> > perl scripts always show as:
> > 
> > "/usr/bin/perl ./scriptname.pl"
> > 
> > Is there any way to modify this so that it appears differently?  I'd 
> > like to be able to hide as much as possible.
> 
> Try assigning the name you want to the $0 (dollar sign - zero) 
> variable.

Right -- but this is broken in perl-5.8.0. 

It's been fixed already, but I haven't seen any workarounds to use until
5.8.1 is released.

-- 
Steve

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