Re: PERL/Linux

2001-07-11 Thread Bill Pierson
My apologies - I use: $who = `whoami`; not $who = `who`; Thanks, --Bill - Original Message - From: "Simas Cepaitis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Bill Pierson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 9:33 AM Subject:

PERL/Linux

2001-07-11 Thread Bill Pierson
Good morning, afternoon, or evening depending on when you read this. :o) To aid in system administration and to track whom is accessing my servers, I wrote a little PERL script that is called from /etc/bashrc. As soon as someone logs in, the program gets the date and executes: $who = `who`; I

Re: Simple

2001-07-09 Thread Bill Pierson
Thanks! In just a moment you'll hear a loud "pop." That will be the sound of my head coming out of my buttocks with great force. :) --Bill - Original Message - From: "Ledbetter, Jason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Bill Pierson '" <[

Simple

2001-07-09 Thread Bill Pierson
Easy question. open(IN,"something.txt"); while($line = ) { chomp($line); if ($line eq "something") { ## HOW DO I STOP THE WHILE AND MOVE ON? } } Too little sleep + too much perl = deer in headlights. Any help will be appreciated, --Bill

Re: Mysteries of the STDIN

2001-07-04 Thread Bill Pierson
Dave, I tested it with the <> on both *nix and windows - both worked with no problems. I'm guessing that it may be beneficial to see the whole program. --Bill - Original Message - From: "SAWMaster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2001 1:32 PM Su

Re: Mysterys of the Unknown STDIN

2001-07-04 Thread Bill Pierson
Dave, Are you running this as a batch file, or as a PERL file? --Bill - Original Message - From: "SAWMaster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2001 12:48 PM Subject: Mysterys of the Unknown STDIN I'm working on a fairly lengthy ( for a newbie like me

Editor

2001-07-03 Thread Bill Pierson
Hello again, all. May I get some suggestions for any Windows-based PERL development tools? Preferably, free ones? Thanks, --Bill

Re: arrays

2001-06-28 Thread Bill Pierson
I'm a learner myself, but here is a quick guess: open(IN,"/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf") || die $!; @conf = ; close(IN); foreach (@conf) { if ($_ =~ /ServerName (.*)/i) { push (@servers,$1); } } print "@servers\n"; You may also need to put in a exclusion for the main servername directi

RE: Running PERL as root

2001-06-27 Thread Bill Pierson
al Message- From: Farouk Khawaja [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 10:44 PM To: Bill Pierson; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Running PERL as root Bill Pierson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a quick question about running a perl program as root v

Running PERL as root

2001-06-27 Thread Bill Pierson
I have a quick question about running a perl program as root via CGI. I would assume it's platform dependant, and in my situation I have Linux Redhat 7.1 w/Apache 1.3.19 webserver. This question is a little off-topic, however I'm guessing that a few of you may have tackled this issue before. Tha

Suggestions?

2001-06-27 Thread Bill Pierson
Greetings all - I realize this is a very broad question, however any suggestions would be appreciated. I'm looking to purchase good learning tools about programming in PERL. I've been programming with it for several years, but I've never truly learned the basics - just looked at other code and

Large File Sort

2001-06-25 Thread Bill Pierson
Greetings all. I'm new to the list, and this is my first post, please excuse my ignorance if I ask a question that has already been addressed. I need some help finding a program or script that will merge/sort a 250+MB file as quickly as possible. For example - I have 2 files. File A, and File