obtaining a process ID.

2002-12-11 Thread B-E-G Gomes
Looking for a simple method of getting a single process ID (for a process such as syslogd) and store it in a scalar. I've found a few methods of doing so but they haven't been pretty. I'm taking suggestions :) -gomes -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mai

Need help!

2002-09-22 Thread B-E-G Gomes
I need help with the following assignment. I've got the three words in the first line listed in an array. But I'm stuck here. All I have to do is read the file and print the amount of times each word in the array occurs: this is what I have so far !/usr/bin/perl -w open (INPUTFILE, "inp

Re: Sun Sparcstation 20 and Perl?

2002-09-24 Thread B-E-G Gomes
It definitely depends on price. A sparc 20 isn't even a match for most Pentium IIIs running just about any flavor of UNIX or LINUX. Not to mention, hardware is proprietary (uses S-bus not PCI bus), a special keyboard is needed, and monitor, unless you get a converter. If your not going to use