Re: perl stangeness on 3.3-RC

1999-09-15 Thread Christopher Masto
On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 06:37:34PM -0400, David E. Cross wrote: > method isn't working. FreeBSD doesn't have a gethostname _system_ call, but > it does have the gethostname() library call (which uses sysctl(2)). Any > ideas how to get perl to use this? Write a small xs module? -- Christopher Ma

Re: perl stangeness on 3.3-RC

1999-09-15 Thread Christopher Masto
On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 06:37:34PM -0400, David E. Cross wrote: > method isn't working. FreeBSD doesn't have a gethostname _system_ call, but > it does have the gethostname() library call (which uses sysctl(2)). Any > ideas how to get perl to use this? Write a small xs module? -- Christopher M

Re: perl stangeness on 3.3-RC

1999-09-15 Thread David E. Cross
> Umm, you can edit /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers to configure xdm to > run say /usr/config/X (which would be stored on the local machiens hard > drive) instead of /usr/X11R6/bin/X. This is a much simpler solution. > :) (Just symlink /usr/config/X to /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_Whatever.) Simpler? It

RE: perl stangeness on 3.3-RC

1999-09-15 Thread John Baldwin
On 15-Sep-99 David E. Cross wrote: > We have a very hetergenous environment here (even among the FreeBSD > boxes). > Each PC tends to be just a little bit different. This expecially > causes > problems since we wish to have XDM on each machine on boot and have X > on a NFS partition. TO alleviat

Re: perl stangeness on 3.3-RC

1999-09-15 Thread David E. Cross
> Umm, you can edit /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers to configure xdm to > run say /usr/config/X (which would be stored on the local machiens hard > drive) instead of /usr/X11R6/bin/X. This is a much simpler solution. > :) (Just symlink /usr/config/X to /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_Whatever.) Simpler? I

RE: perl stangeness on 3.3-RC

1999-09-15 Thread John Baldwin
On 15-Sep-99 David E. Cross wrote: > We have a very hetergenous environment here (even among the FreeBSD > boxes). > Each PC tends to be just a little bit different. This expecially > causes > problems since we wish to have XDM on each machine on boot and have X > on a NFS partition. TO allevia

perl stangeness on 3.3-RC

1999-09-15 Thread David E. Cross
We have a very hetergenous environment here (even among the FreeBSD boxes). Each PC tends to be just a little bit different. This expecially causes problems since we wish to have XDM on each machine on boot and have X on a NFS partition. TO alleviate this we invented a simple Perl script to repla

perl stangeness on 3.3-RC

1999-09-15 Thread David E. Cross
We have a very hetergenous environment here (even among the FreeBSD boxes). Each PC tends to be just a little bit different. This expecially causes problems since we wish to have XDM on each machine on boot and have X on a NFS partition. TO alleviate this we invented a simple Perl script to repl