Re: Still Not sure if I agree with myself.

2003-09-14 Thread Todd W.
"Drieux" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Friday, Sep 12, 2003, at 18:54 US/Pacific, Todd W. wrote: > [..] > > I dont think you can call that a closure yet. You would have to be > > defining > > subroutines that refer to lexical variables outside of the subroutine

Re: remote host name

2003-09-14 Thread Bob Showalter
Alexander Blüm wrote: > hello, > > as my subject indicates, I'm looking for a way of resolving the remote > hostname. > any system command will do too... perldoc -f gethostbyaddr > > I'm planning to write a small script that simply tells the connecting > user, which DNS name he has, since my loca

Re: Truncate questions.

2003-09-14 Thread Bob Showalter
Sara wrote: > open (DB, "+ > truncate (DB, 1024); > > close DB; > > > > 1. This truncate the file from bottom .. Is there a way the > file can truncated from the top? No. You have to rewrite the file contents to delete from the beginning of the file. > > 2. I have DB with 4-8 digits numbe

Re: Perl/DBI newbie: password storage / security question

2003-09-14 Thread R. Joseph Newton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thank you Joseph and Motherofperls for your tips, however I need something more than > security through obscurity, as this database is going to store our customers > personal information (real name and contact information) which is absolutely > unacceptable to be stor

Re: Perl/DBI newbie: password storage / security question

2003-09-14 Thread essential quint
Dear Zedgar, I'm not completely sure I understand your goals, question and setup, but, if you are concerned about security, using a relational database is almost if not certainly your best bet. I am working on just such a system right now for myself, so I can appreciate your question. I'll gi

remote host name

2003-09-14 Thread Alexander Blüm
hello, as my subject indicates, I'm looking for a way of resolving the remote hostname. any system command will do too... I'm planning to write a small script that simply tells the connecting user, which DNS name he has, since my localnet is equipped with a dhcp server the clients usually get

Re: Perl/DBI newbie: password storage / security question

2003-09-14 Thread zedgar
R. Joseph Newton wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>I'm basically concerned about the security of writing a simple web frontend to SQL >>database, the most important question being: how should I store the database >>password? >>[...] >>There are tens of websites on the server and every databa