RE: Creating PID file

2008-04-27 Thread Michael Barnes
-Original Message- From: Jenda Krynicky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sun 4/27/2008 3:11 AM To: Michael Barnes Subject: RE: Creating PID file Subject:RE: Creating PID file Date sent: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 23:49:23 -0700 From: "Michael B

RE: Creating PID file

2008-04-26 Thread Michael Barnes
s. I need the script to determine its own pid, then write that to a file. Thanks, Michael -Original Message- From: Rob Dixon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sat 4/26/2008 6:49 PM To: beginners@perl.org Cc: Michael Barnes Subject: Re: Creating PID file Michael Barnes wrote: > >

Creating PID file

2008-04-26 Thread Michael Barnes
This may be a bit advanced for a beginner's group, but I need to have my script create a pidfile. I'm running a monitor app that keeps track of what is running and notifies me when stuff stops. It does it by comparing the pid in the pidfile with ps. So, I need my script to create a pidfile when

How to extract digits by position in a string?

2008-04-09 Thread Michael Barnes
I have a list of strings like this: 060001_000 060001_001 060001_002 060001_003 060001_004 070002_000 070002_001 070002_002 070002_003 070002_004 The position and value of the digits are significant. The first two digits give me a channel, i.e. 06=channel 1, 07= channel 2, etc. The sixth digit

Re: Newbie File Question....

2008-02-13 Thread Michael Barnes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] told me on 02/13/2008 10:34 AM: > I've been going over some listings and I found code > > like the following: > > > > "./directory/file.txt" and > > "../directory/file.txt" > > > > but I've never seen the "./" and "../" things at the > > beginning of the path. I've trie

Re: lstat and its uses

2008-02-12 Thread Michael Barnes
Chas. Owens told me on 02/12/2008 12:30 PM: > On Feb 12, 2008 1:08 PM, Kashif Salman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Feb 12, 2008 9:58 AM, Chas. Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> On Feb 12, 2008 12:38 PM, Michael Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>

Re: lstat and its uses

2008-02-12 Thread Michael Barnes
Kashif Salman told me on 02/12/2008 09:31 AM: > On Feb 12, 2008 6:51 AM, Michael Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> John W. Krahn told me on 02/11/2008 03:47 PM: >>> Michael Barnes wrote: >>>> I thought about using lstat to get the size of a file fo

Re: lstat and its uses

2008-02-12 Thread Michael Barnes
John W. Krahn told me on 02/11/2008 03:47 PM: > Michael Barnes wrote: >> I thought about using lstat to get the size of a file for file >> comparisons. I see that lstat always returns a list of thirteen values. >> The references I find appear to require assignment of

lstat and its uses

2008-02-11 Thread Michael Barnes
I thought about using lstat to get the size of a file for file comparisons. I see that lstat always returns a list of thirteen values. The references I find appear to require assignment of those 13 values to variables, even though I only want to use one. Do I really have to put ($dev,$ino,$mode