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2001-05-25 Thread Adam Theo
Hello, Adam Theo here; Just to note, this is cross-posted to the Perl-XML and Beginners mailing lists, since i share the same message to both of them. sorry if this inconveniences anyone. I'd again like to thank everyone on these lists, especially: Mr McLean for his huge help in my understandin

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2001-05-25 Thread VeeraRaju_Mareddi
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Re: error on system command

2001-05-25 Thread Me
> Hi, I'm getting a syntax error on the following > command > > $PIDS=`ps -ef | grep $user | grep -v grep | cut -b > 10-14` You're missing the semi-colon (;) at the end?

Re: threads

2001-05-25 Thread Peter Scott
Also be aware that threads are currently considered experimental and can break under certain circumstances. As rare as those might be, no-one will claim they have no chance of occurring. Translation: don't use this for an air traffic control system or a cardiac monitoring system. (If you do

RE: error on system command

2001-05-25 Thread Peter Cornelius
It might help to know what the error is saying and maybe some surrounding code but my first reaction is that $user has a \n in it that need to be chomped. Also, don't you want @PIDS? Peter C. > Hi, I'm getting a syntax error on the following > command > > $PIDS=`ps -ef | grep $user | grep -v g

error on system command

2001-05-25 Thread Peter Lemus
Hi, I'm getting a syntax error on the following command $PIDS=`ps -ef | grep $user | grep -v grep | cut -b 10-14` Please help. I need to get the process id of $user and assign it to PIDS, then kill it. thanks, = Peter Lemus UNIX/NT Networks Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] --This world is too

Re: threads

2001-05-25 Thread Lucy
> hello, > > i did the following in a script in accordance to perlthrtut > to find out the posibility to use threads and the answer was "We do not > have threads" probably true. to see what your perl was configured with do a perl -V > #!/usr/bin/perl > use Config; > if($Config{usethreads}){

threads

2001-05-25 Thread Ulises Vega
hello, i did the following in a script in accordance to perlthrtut to find out the posibility to use threads and the answer was "We do not have threads" #!/usr/bin/perl use Config; if($Config{usethreads}){ print "We have threads\n"; }else{ print "We do not have threads\n"; } the

Re: udp redirect

2001-05-25 Thread David Monarres
Ronald, I know that this doesn't directly anwswer your question but chapter 18 of Lincon Stein's "Network Programming with perl" is all about UDP servers. I am not quit ethere yet so I really cannot help you but that might give you a clue. David On Fri, 25 May 2001 08:47:13 "Yacketta,Ronald J" wro

Re: File Age

2001-05-25 Thread Paul
--- Jeff Pinyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On May 25, Keith A. Humphrey said: > > >Is there a perl command that can tell me the age of a file? > > Not on Unix. You might be able to get a Windows or Mac specific > module to get the creation date of a file on those systems, but Unix > does not

Re: File Age

2001-05-25 Thread Brett W. McCoy
On Fri, 25 May 2001, Keith A. Humphrey wrote: > Is there a perl command that can tell me the age of a file? -M age since last modification, in days -C age since last access, in days -A age since last inode change in days Note that these return the age at the time your script ran. You should se

Re: File Age

2001-05-25 Thread Jeff Pinyan
On May 25, Keith A. Humphrey said: >Is there a perl command that can tell me the age of a file? Not on Unix. You might be able to get a Windows or Mac specific module to get the creation date of a file on those systems, but Unix does not store the creation date of a file -- you can, however, ge

File Age

2001-05-25 Thread Keith A. Humphrey
Is there a perl command that can tell me the age of a file? Keith Humphrey Software Engineer NetRail, Inc. 1-888-NETRAIL ext. 4215

RE: hiding logins at prompt

2001-05-25 Thread Yacketta,Ronald J
Darn it, beat me to the punch I just saw his question and was reading the chapter when I saw your post... -Original Message- From: Brett W. McCoy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 3:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: hiding logins at prompt

Re: hiding logins at prompt

2001-05-25 Thread Casey West
On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 02:54:36PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : : Hi, : : I've got a Perl script that logs into one of our applications as Admin. I : didn't want to hard code in the password, so I'm prompting for it. I was : looking for a way to hide the input, just like when you log into

Re: hiding logins at prompt

2001-05-25 Thread Brett W. McCoy
On Fri, 25 May 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've got a Perl script that logs into one of our applications as Admin. I > didn't want to hard code in the password, so I'm prompting for it. I was > looking for a way to hide the input, just like when you log into a Unix or NT > box. I was hopin

hiding logins at prompt

2001-05-25 Thread Peter_Farrar
Hi, I've got a Perl script that logs into one of our applications as Admin. I didn't want to hard code in the password, so I'm prompting for it. I was looking for a way to hide the input, just like when you log into a Unix or NT box. I was hoping to either have the actual input chars replaced

Re: Regexp - missing matches

2001-05-25 Thread Timothy Kimball
Craig Moynes wrote: : $params{f} = "%E %e %d"; : output: : %E %e %d : %d : : So %e is not found : : $params{f} = "%d %e"; : output: : %d %e : %e I can't reproduce this error with the code you posted. Here's the script I tried: #!/faxafloi/data1/bin/perl use Getopt::Std; use strict; my @ma

Re: Regexp - missing matches

2001-05-25 Thread Walt Mankowski
On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 11:43:21AM -0400, Craig Moynes/Markham/IBM wrote: > I have the following regexp: > > @matches = $params{f} =~ /(%[aAbBcCdDehHIjmMnprStTuUVwWyY%])/g; > > If I have a script: > > [snip] > my @matches; > my ( %params ); > getopts('DRSa:f:s:d:r:b:w:n:h?', \%params); > > pri

Re: NDBM Error

2001-05-25 Thread Timothy Kimball
Geraint Jones wrote: : "ndbm store returned -1, errno 0, key "C4842AE" at : /usr/local/httpd/cgi-bin/ism-web.pl line 49." : : This is the offending line: : : $STOCK{$act_on} += $val; Does the user that your CGI script runs as have write permission on the dbm file? -- tdk

udp redirect

2001-05-25 Thread Yacketta,Ronald J
Folks, I have been searching for a udp redirector that would be used to gather udp packets on a single ip:port and then redirect to multiple ip:port combinations. A little diag of what I am searching for: server 1 ||--- utility 1 server

Regexp - missing matches

2001-05-25 Thread Craig Moynes/Markham/IBM
I have the following regexp: @matches = $params{f} =~ /(%[aAbBcCdDehHIjmMnprStTuUVwWyY%])/g; If I have a script: [snip] my @matches; my ( %params ); getopts('DRSa:f:s:d:r:b:w:n:h?', \%params); print "$params{f}\n"; print "@matches\n"; [snip] I am passing -f "some string" in on the command lin

Hi A Small Problem in PERL

2001-05-25 Thread VeeraRaju_Mareddi
Dear All I am getting a small problem in PERL programming.I am Getting error code 123 if i try to install a serive on a remote system using perl using Win32::AdminMisc. & I am not able to logon to the remote system as a user My purpose is to create a process on a remote system by logging as

RE: make problems

2001-05-25 Thread Gregory L. Hering
Hm... from your output: `sh cflags hash.o` -DPERL_FOR_X2P hash.c CCCMD = -c /config.sh: File or directory doesn't exist 1) This first line looks messed up; unless 'cflags' is a shell script which returns something like 'gcc -o hash.o' I don't think you will be compilin'. 2) If

make problems

2001-05-25 Thread Fisher, Pat HS-SNS
Hi, I'm having a make problem with the x2p directory. I get a file not found error, but I'm not sure which file ! hash.h and hash.c are in the directory, and I even made a link to config.sh in the same directory with no results. Any hints ? I have included part of the make file (-d) output. GN

RE: reg ftp

2001-05-25 Thread Gregory L. Hering
The 'man page' is a bit vague: ascii Set the file transfer type to network ASCII. This is the default type. binary Set the file transfer type to support binary image transfer. however, we know that if you were to translate characters in executable files that could be interprete

Re: Installing perl modules under Solaris

2001-05-25 Thread Stephen P. Potter
Lightning flashed, thunder crashed and "Rivera Alonso, David" whispered: | I hope you won't hate me for this: | | after installing all the ".h" files under /usr/include, it goes much better, | but I still have strange warning: when I say "make" it gives an error: | | "gcc: installation problem,

Re: reg ftp

2001-05-25 Thread Stephen P. Potter
Lightning flashed, thunder crashed and "baby lakshmi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > whispered: | hi | while doing ftp from windows to unix, the file contains ctl M at the end of | each line. my file is a huge data file. i am not able to delete that. is | there any better way to delete it. | If anyone can

RE: reg ftp

2001-05-25 Thread Gregory L. Hering
Oops. 'bin' means BINARY mode and the intent is that NO translation takes place. BINARY mode should be used for files that would be messed up by EOL translation. Like executables, tar or ZIP files, jpep, etc. ASCII means "please move my file, but translate the EOL appropriate to the system receiv

re: reg ftp

2001-05-25 Thread Steve Neu
Here's one I like... (for removing evil ctrl M's) perl -w -i -p -e "s/\x0d//g" filename Stephen Neu Internet Development Characterlink.net (630) 323-9800 ext. 235 #!/usr/bin/perl #JustAnotherPerlHacker ($, ,@j15)=('t','Kvt' ,' Bop','ifs', ' Q', 'sm Ibdl' ,'s') ;foreach ( @j15){ tr/B-Zb-

RE: reg ftp

2001-05-25 Thread Gregory L. Hering
How 'bout ftp in ASCII mode. I recon' that's what it's for. Greg -Original Message- From: baby lakshmi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 1:50 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: reg ftp hi while doing ftp from windows to unix, the file contains ctl M at the end of eac

Re: reg ftp

2001-05-25 Thread Brett W. McCoy
On Fri, 25 May 2001, baby lakshmi wrote: > while doing ftp from windows to unix, the file contains ctl M at the end of > each line. my file is a huge data file. i am not able to delete that. is > there any better way to delete it. Use Perl to do it: perl -pi.bak -e 's/\cM//g' filename1 filename

NDBM Error

2001-05-25 Thread Geraint Jones
Hello folks, I get the error below in my CGI script which is a small database app. I am using NDBM_File and am 99% certain that everything is correct because I first wrote the script without using CGI and it worked perfectly. The following is that uncertain 1%: "ndbm store returned -1, errno 0

Re: DB

2001-05-25 Thread M.W. Koskamp
- Original Message - From: justin todd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Beginners (E-mail) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 10:18 AM Subject: DB > Hi. > (...) In short: Your webserver doesn't connect to your DB server. Basically this had nothing to do with the NT Domain trusting an

Connecting to NT Servers

2001-05-25 Thread Riley, Steven (Security)
Hi all, I'm new to the list and usually like to lurk for a while before asking questions but I've been faced with a problem which I'm struggling to find an answer. Can someone supply help or a URL to help me connecting to an NT server? Basically I want to connect to several servers over the inte

Re: reg ftp

2001-05-25 Thread Hasanuddin Tamir
On Fri, 25 May 2001, baby lakshmi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote, > hi > while doing ftp from windows to unix, the file contains ctl M at the end of > each line. my file is a huge data file. i am not able to delete that. is > there any better way to delete it. If you have access to that unix machin

Re: reg ftp

2001-05-25 Thread Gary Stainburn
If you use ftp in text mode, it should add the ^M when going towards windows and remove it when going away. This *should* be automatic. If this doesn't work, then you can handle it in your perl script. Instead of using chomp to remove the from the end of your line, use $line=~s/[\r\n]+$//;

Re: reg ftp

2001-05-25 Thread baby lakshmi
hi thank you for ur mail. i have given bin while ftping it. still i am getting the same problem. Thank you regards babylakshmi >From: "Antonio Greco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "baby lakshmi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: reg ftp >Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 10:26:38 +0200 > >hi > >try setting "bi

Re: script that runs all the time to monitor log file

2001-05-25 Thread Gary Stainburn
This sounds like a logrotate problem. Do you have logrotate controlling this log file. I may be wrong, but I think if you have the file open when logrotate kicks in, you filehandle will stay on the same file. i.e. you open /var/log/maillog logrotate removes /var/log/maillog.4 it then renames 3

DB

2001-05-25 Thread justin todd
Hi. This is my problem, I am to short. But there is nothing that can be done about that but maybe you all can help me out with this. I have a NT4.0 IIS web server which hosts and executes my Perl scripts. On a different machine and on a different domain I have a MSSQL7 database server in which I

RE: Installing perl modules under Solaris

2001-05-25 Thread Rivera Alonso, David
I hope you won't hate me for this: after installing all the ".h" files under /usr/include, it goes much better, but I still have strange warning: when I say "make" it gives an error: "gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `as': No such file or directory make: *** [Parser.o] Error 1" if you can