RE: accessing a hash map...

2003-09-09 Thread Bob Showalter
Hanson, Rob wrote: > You have it slightly wrong... > > print $hashref{'disks'}->{'io'}; Nope. That references a member of the %hashref hash. He wants print $hashref->{disks}{io}; > > ...And the quotes are optional (usually)... > > print $hashref{disks}->{io}; > > > Is there a more generic

RE: accessing a hash map...

2003-09-09 Thread Wiggins d'Anconia
On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 14:39:58 -0400, "Li, Kit-Wing" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This may not be the right thread but I'd like to see if someone could point > me to the right direction. I'm writing a CGI script to show current > performance of the A

RE: accessing a hash map...

2003-09-09 Thread Hanson, Rob
You have it slightly wrong... print $hashref{'disks'}->{'io'}; ...And the quotes are optional (usually)... print $hashref{disks}->{io}; > Is there a more generic mailing list > for the different perl modules? Thare are other lists/newsgroups, but most are geared to specific port (ActiveState),

accessing a hash map...

2003-09-09 Thread Li, Kit-Wing
This may not be the right thread but I'd like to see if someone could point me to the right direction. I'm writing a CGI script to show current performance of the Apache server and I'm using Linux::stat to get the disk IO for example. I can seem to access the value of the hash reference(see below

Re: Security?

2003-09-09 Thread drieux
On Monday, Sep 8, 2003, at 22:57 US/Pacific, Greenhalgh David wrote: [..] I refer you to the answer I received from Drieux to (almost) exactly the same question. ---Drieux's code--- #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use Fcntl qw/O_CREAT O_RDWR O_EXCL O_RDONLY/;; my $

Re: Security?

2003-09-09 Thread Gavin Laking
On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 05:57:44 + [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Greenhalgh David) wrote: > > On Tuesday, September 9, 2003, at 02:04 AM, Alejandro Chavarria - > CyPage wrote: > if you want your CDGI to be able to read from a file, then so can > everyone else. In that case, the best you can do is remove w

Re: Security?

2003-09-09 Thread Gavin Laking
On Mon, 8 Sep 2003 18:04:44 -0800 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alejandro Chavarria - Cypage) wrote: > Does anyone know > of a way, where I can not allow ANYONE to view that text file, but > still let the program write to it? It appears there is a misunderstanding of what permissions mean. I suggest that y

Re: Security?

2003-09-09 Thread Gavin Laking
On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 05:57:44 + [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Greenhalgh David) wrote: > > On Tuesday, September 9, 2003, at 02:04 AM, Alejandro Chavarria - > CyPage wrote: > if you want your CDGI to be able to read from a file, then so can > everyone else. In that case, the best you can do is remove w

Re: Security?

2003-09-09 Thread sfryer
I've never done it personally, but off-hand (assuming that chmod 444 won't work) I'd suggest you may want to look into using sudo (for *nix). With sudo you could give the www user permission to become root only when executing that one command that writes to the file. You'd have to use a system call