RE: Link check problem.

2001-06-06 Thread Chris Lott
> As I only want to know if the page is available for browsing, > what are the > result codes I should look for. 1)Explanation of response codes here: http://kbs.cs.tu-berlin.de/~jutta/ht/responses.html 2)The problem is that you need to set the user agent in your code so that it masquerades as

RE: A good book?

2001-06-04 Thread Chris Lott
> An extensive review can be found here: > http://xenu.phys.uit.no/~tom/TYP21D.html Sorry, wrong book with similar title. c

RE: A good book?

2001-06-04 Thread Chris Lott
> Though not on the FAQ, is Lemay's "Per in 21 > Days" book also > worthwhile? An extensive review can be found here: http://xenu.phys.uit.no/~tom/TYP21D.html c

RE: A good book?

2001-06-04 Thread Chris Lott
> Learning Perl may not teach you OOP, but that was not what a true > beginner comes to learn. I thought it excellent and occasionally > entertaining. (I still chuckle when I think of the index entry for > RINDEX). My point is that the section on OOP is very useful for understanding and implemen

RE: A good book?

2001-06-04 Thread Chris Lott
Chris> Personally, I think _Learning Perl_ is really showing its age. I'm going to try to figure out how to say this without insulting a book that I *do* like and authors who are both Perl wizards and whose writing has given me a lot. Maybe dated isn't the right word, although the books style is,

RE: DBI.pm on perl-5.6.0

2001-05-30 Thread Chris Lott
I would guess that it needs a newer version. 5.6.1 is the current version... on my machine at least: C:\>perl -v This is perl, v5.6.1 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread (with 1 registered patch, see perl -V for more detail) c

RE: installing Mail-tools module in windows 2000

2001-05-27 Thread Chris Lott
This is the "beginners" list after all... while it may be fun for some to get cygwin going in order to learn perl, or to buy a compiler and create a custom version, for most ActiveState works quite fine and will install and perform without needing to spend a lot of time learning even more computin

script that runs all the time to monitor log file

2001-05-24 Thread Chris Lott
I have a simple little perl program that monitors the email log file for rejected messages (see below). I start the program using "nohup script.pl &" and it works fine, sending me an email with info about each rejected message. However, it just dies out randomly after a day or so for no reason tha