Re: config files

Randal L. Schwartz wrote: "M" == M Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: M> do '/absolute/path/to/mcr.conf'; M> Which defeats my purpose of getting the configuration items out of the M> scripts themselves. I don't want the users to have to edit the three M> scripts, only the mcr.conf file. If

Re: config files

> "M" == M Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: M> do '/absolute/path/to/mcr.conf'; M> Which defeats my purpose of getting the configuration items out of the M> scripts themselves. I don't want the users to have to edit the three M> scripts, only the mcr.conf file. If your configs are relative

Re: config files

Dr.Ruud wrote: Shawn Corey: M. Lewis: do './mcr.conf'; The only way I have found thus far to make this work [...] is to change the above line to: do '/absolute/path/to/mcr.conf'; Your problem could be one of two things. 1. The procmail is run by the user but not from the directory wh

Re: config files

Shawn Corey wrote: M. Lewis wrote: I'm trying to move the configuration variables out of three perl scripts and put them in a config file. Fine, no problem so far. The way this works is an email message with a given subject is processed by procmail then passed off to the first perl script. T

Re: config files

Dr.Ruud wrote: If the .conf is in the same directory as the .pl, then $0 can help, see `perldoc perlvar` and File::Basename, or maybe even `perldoc FindBin`. True. But since the OP said 'mail' I assumed that meant more than one user, each with a different configuration. -- Just my 0.000

Re: config files

Shawn Corey: > M. Lewis: >> do './mcr.conf'; >> >> The only way I have found thus far to make this work [...] >> is to change the above line to: >> >> do '/absolute/path/to/mcr.conf'; > > Your problem could be one of two things. > > 1. The procmail is run by the user but not from the directory

Re: config files

M. Lewis wrote: I'm trying to move the configuration variables out of three perl scripts and put them in a config file. Fine, no problem so far. The way this works is an email message with a given subject is processed by procmail then passed off to the first perl script. The first script sets

config files

I'm trying to move the configuration variables out of three perl scripts and put them in a config file. Fine, no problem so far. The way this works is an email message with a given subject is processed by procmail then passed off to the first perl script. The first script sets up the second. T

Re: Using Config files and variables.

On 7/31/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > problem is that the variables in the config are not being translated into > there actual values before they get used. So you have a plaintext config file with variable names in it that you want perl to interpolate at some point once the co

Using Config files and variables.

Ok , all file contents and code are below, this is a sort of complicated issue. I have a config file with customer static information , a couple of modules, and a script. The basis of the problem is that in the config file there is an sql query that has some variables in it. The script calls one mo

Re: Reading config files

build a pm to store them. Tor. Brian Ling wrote: > > Hi All > > I have a main Perl program that needs to read in a config file that just > sets some variable values, what is the best way to do this. The config > file can be in any format I want such as: > > #!/usr/bin/perl > my $var = 3; > m

RE: Reading config files

ment to use the subroutines of the file named in some other program. Rgds, vinai -Original Message- From: Brian Ling [mailto:brian.ling@;bbc.co.uk] Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 3:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Reading config files Hi All I have a main Perl program that needs to r

Reading config files

Hi All I have a main Perl program that needs to read in a config file that just sets some variable values, what is the best way to do this. The config file can be in any format I want such as: #!/usr/bin/perl my $var = 3; my $var1 = 4 ; my $var2 = 234; etc So how could I run