RE: How to su in a script if su needs a pswd ?

2004-02-18 Thread Thind, Aman
Thanks a lot David ! This sounds very do-able and highly efficient ;) -aman -Original Message- From: David le Blanc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 18 February 2004 13:55 To: Thind, Aman; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: How to su in a script if su needs a pswd ? aman, Check out

RE: How to su in a script if su needs a pswd ?

2004-02-17 Thread Thind, Aman
: Thind, Aman Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How to su in a script if su needs a pswd ? >>>>> "Aman" == Thind, Aman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Aman> I pass through the else block as you had earlier answered to one Joe Aman> Catanzaro though his question wa

RE: How to su in a script if su needs a pswd ?

2004-02-17 Thread Thind, Aman
Hello Randal, In your - If ( aman eq "same person who asked in a diff forum") { print "JERK"; } Else { print "Valuable archive of answers to similar question" ; } I pass through the else block as you had earlier answered to one Joe Catanzaro though his question was strikingly sim

RE: How to su in a script if su needs a pswd ?

2004-02-17 Thread Thind, Aman
- From: Kipp, James [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 17 February 2004 19:35 To: 'Thind, Aman'; Perl Beginners Subject: RE: How to su in a script if su needs a pswd ? > Hello, > > I am running a command as part of my script on a Unix box for > which I need > to su to

RE: connecting to a mail server via IMAP

2004-02-17 Thread Thind, Aman
I don't think you can send attachments using Net::SMTP. Use Mail::Sender by Jenda Krynickyit works ! And what's best is that Jenda is always around in this list raring to help...so u've got real time support ;-) And yes you do indeed need a mail server to connect to... Cheers -aman -O

How to su in a script if su needs a pswd ?

2004-02-17 Thread Thind, Aman
Hello, I am running a command as part of my script on a Unix box for which I need to su to a different username. This su requires a password as well. I could not find any option of passing the password in su. Tried the shell script solution of here docs : su <

Archiving folder containing folders (was - RE: Using archive::tar for archiving a folder)

2004-02-11 Thread Thind, Aman
Thanks for the response David. When I do 'Archive::Tar->create_archive("/tmp/test.tar",0,glob("*.pl"))' it tars all the .pl files in the current working directory. However, I need to tar a folder which has many folders inside it. I tried 'Archive::Tar->create_archive("/tmp/test.tar",0,glob("*.*"

Always Timing Out in Net::Telnet :(

2004-02-10 Thread Thind, Aman
after logging in the prompt becomes : [EMAIL PROTECTED] $ What should I add after "Prompt => " while creating a new session ? No matter what I try it always aborts with the msg : "timed-out waiting for login prompt at J:\net.pl line 10" :(( Thanx a lot Aman -

RE: my ($var) = ; and my ($var); $var = different ?

2004-02-10 Thread Thind, Aman
Thanx Paul That explains the behaviour very clearly. I rushed to my code and replaced all the my ($var) with my $var :) -Original Message- From: Paul Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 February 2004 19:20 To: Thind, Aman Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: my ($va

Using archive::tar for archiving a folder

2004-02-10 Thread Thind, Aman
Hello Friends, I wish to archive a folder into a .tar I've been searching through the documentation of archive::tar module but could not find a way by which I could make the .tar just by specifying the folder name (like on unix prompt "tar -cvf myarchive.tar myfoldername") and not explicitly stat

my ($var) = ; and my ($var); $var = different ?

2004-02-10 Thread Thind, Aman
Hello Friends, I was just writing some code and observed that : My ($cur_line) = ; While ($cur_line = ) { . Even though is a handle of a file with many lines, control does not enter the while loop. However when I do : My ($cur_line); $cur_line = ; While ($cur_line = ) { .

RE: Remote script execution

2004-02-04 Thread Thind, Aman
Hello Charles, We have a 100 mbps LAN running tcp\ip...typical to company networks. Thanks Aman Thind -Original Message- From: Charles K. Clarkson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 05 February 2004 11:31 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Remote script execution Thind, Aman <[EM

Remote script execution

2004-02-04 Thread Thind, Aman
Hello Friends, I would be really grateful if someone could help me out with this. I want to write a script that when executed will get lots of details from 10 different Unix(AIX) and Windows(XP) boxes and generate a report. The details to be gathered about the machines include : 1) Names and ve