Re: Safari Bookmarks comparison
On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 03:20:22PM -0700, Mark Wheeler wrote: Hi, This might be slightly OT, but... I work in two different locations, and have two different safari bookmark files, obviously. I was thinking about writing a script that would log into one computer, d/l that computer's safari bookmarks, compare that bookmark list to the one on the current computer, make one file that includes all the bookmarks and save that file to both computers. In short, keep the bookmark files synced up. What's wrong with: cvs update Library/Safari/Bookmarks.plist followed by something like: cvs commit Library/Safari/Bookmarks.plist -m `hostname` at `date` (or subversion's equivalent..) -Charles [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Icon in Address Bar
At 10:18 PM -0400 4/25/2004, Sherm Pendley wrote: It's a file at the root of your site, called favicon.ico. It's a 16x16 icon in Windows Icon (.ico) format, which is exportable from a number of graphics packages. You can also indicate this file using a header along the lines of: link rel=icon href=/favicon.png type=image/png
Re: The beloved make command CPAN
On Dec 22, 2003, at 6:11 AM, Sherm Pendley wrote: On Dec 21, 2003, at 8:19 PM, Mark Lowe wrote: With our without the Developer Tools CD, it still doesn't work. The fact that modules won't install without developer tools is well-known, well-documented, and not in the least bit surprising if you think about it. After all, many modules include C code, and it's not really reasonable to expect them to install without a compiler and linker. On 10.3, the Developer Tools CD is actually the XCode CD, isn't it? -C
Re: CPAN newbie question - tries to download perl 5.8.0?
At 1:26 PM -0500 3/7/2003, Jim Correia wrote: I've never used CPAN before - I've gotten by with the stock modules since I don't do too much perl hacking. But now I've got a script from a third party that needs some modules, so I figured I'd use CPAN to go get them. So I fired up the cpan shell, answered all the initial questions (with the default answers). It suggested that I upgrade Bundle::libnet, so I took its advice and did so. As I was watching what it was doing, it started downloading perl 5.8.0 The version of CPAN that Apple ships is buggy in this regard. The first thing I recommend when first working with CPAN is: cpan install CPAN cpan reload cpan (note: not Bundle::CPAN, which CPAN itself suggests as soon as it figures out that a newer version of CPAN is available) CPANPLUS, which is intended to replace the CPAN module, is coming along nicely, but I remember having to revert to an earlier version recently because of some issues with either the stock perl from Apple or with my installation or both. CPAN's readme states: This module will eventually be replaced by CPANPLUS. CPANPLUS is kind of a modern rewrite from ground up with greater extensibility and more features but no full compatibility. If you're new to CPAN.pm, you probably should investigate if CPANPLUS is the better choice for you. -Charles Albrecht euonymic.com
RE: macosx list?
At 12:29 PM -0500 2/11/2003, Riccardo Perotti wrote: That Makes two of us. I would like to subscribe to that list as well. Thanks -Original Message- From: Riccardo Perotti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sorry for the OT, but I've been looking for a MacOSX mailing list, like this one but not perl-only. Somewhere one could ask / discuss about apps, darwin, etc. Does anybody know where to find one? Deja-vu... There are some good lists hosted by Omnigroup. http://www.omnigroup.com/developer/mailinglists/ -C
Re: where to put things?
At 1:07 AM -0800 1/16/2003, Rich Morin wrote: After quite a bit of poking around, I ran across pp. 38-41 of Mac OS X for Unix Geeks (Jepson Rothman, O'Reilly), which gives some explicit information on setting up Startup scripts. With this assistance, I was able to get my startup script going (whew!). Note that the format of these scripts - specifically, how they are called - is different between 10.1 and 10.2. (With 10.1, they're merely called with 'start,' 'stop,' or 'restart,' but stop and restart aren't implemented, and with 10.2, I believe they're called with 'StartService,' 'StopService,' or 'RestartService,' and the calling process provides a 'StartService' sub for the script to leverage.) -Charles Euonymic solutions euonymic.com
Re: where to put things?
At 9:01 AM + 1/15/2003, Paul Mison wrote: daemon: /Library/StartupItems/ helper: in the Foo.app bundle Note that StartupItems are global, and for per-user items you'll need to figure out how to use LoginItems instead, but it doesn't seem to have a folder in ~/Library/ on my machine. They are stored in the AutoLaunchedApplicationDictionary of ~/Library/Preferences/loginwindow.plist as an array of aliases - at least on 10.2. -Charles Euonymic Solutions
Re: Another Perl 5.8 Problem
At 7:36 PM -0500 1/12/2003, Steve Linberg wrote: Thanks for your article, it was helpful to me when I was installing 5.8.0. I've given up on 5.8.0 now, though, because of the trouble with mod_perl. Have you tried building Apache 1.3.27 with mod_perl 1.27 on your Perl 5.8.0 setup? I'd be really curious to see if it works. My conclusion, after a weekend of suffering, is that it doesn't. If you or anybody could show that it's possible and list build steps, I'd be very grateful indeed. Meanwhile I'm sticking to 5.6.0, flawed as it is, and installing modules by hand rather than via CPAN.pm in an effort to stay away from 5.8.0. :( David Wheeler has put together a helpful set of instructions at http://david.wheeler.net/osx.html These deal with installing 5.6.1 on 10.1, but should be helpful when taken together with Kevin's tutorial on Apple's site. At least until David updates the instructions to include 5.8 (and other things like the newer libapreq libraries). They involve compiling a static mod_perl into the apache binary and placing it (and Perl, if memory serves) outside of Apple's canonical locations. As far as issues with CPAN are concerned, they should largely go away once you upgrade the version of CPAN that Apple ships (using 'install CPAN' rather than the suggested 'install Bundle::CPAN' which invariable tries to download an entire Perl installation). FWIW, CPANPLUS shows a great deal of promise. -Charles Euonymic Solutions
Re: Fixing font spacing in Terminal.app
On 9:38 AM -0600 on 1/8/2003, Ken Williams wrote: Not much good anymore. I'm now just another schmoe trying to figure out how I can use iSync to save the world, and whether I want to switch from Omniweb to Safari. Some nice features, but with a couple dozen shortcuts leveraging %@ in OmniWeb, I'd lose a fair amount of functionality with Safari. Still, the implication that other K apps might make it into the OS X userspace with polished interfaces is intriguing... -C
Re: Fixing font spacing in Terminal.app
At 8:28 PM -0500 1/8/2003, Erik Price wrote: On Wednesday, January 8, 2003, at 10:38 AM, Ken Williams wrote: The Allegory of the Cave springs to mind. =) Is that an Empire Strikes Back reference? Luke, the cave... remember your experience at the cave... -- Yoda Youngsters these days, sigh -C
Re: closing and opening a browser
At 1:31 PM -0800 12/10/2002, Matt Morse wrote: also i'm interesed in opening a browser with a valid internet address as argument but i can't find out the syntax for mac os x - can anyone give a hand with that? You can use the open command (see the man page for details): open -a Internet\ Explorer http://www.cnn.com or, if you don't want to specify a particular app: open http://www.cnn.com ...and the site will appear in the user's preferred browser. This is a 10.2 addition - the 10.1 version of open(1) didn't support URL access. And the first form appears to be irrelevant. If the file part of the command looks like a URL, the -a argument is ignored - it'll only pass the URL along to the default handler for that URL (in my case for http, OmniWeb) and leave the -a designated app unlaunched. Switching around to different browser defaults, IE didn't seem to work properly the first time, but after quitting and relaunching, it worked acceptably well. I wonder if issues with IE and /usr/bin/open were addressed in later Jaguar builds. With 10.2.2, it is working on my machine. Just another set of data points. -Charles Euonymic Solutions http://euonymic.com
Re: dynamic flash calendar
At 10:25 AM -0500 12/3/2002, Doug Seib wrote: good morning, I have a calendar that is powered by perl. The problem - works on a pc, not on a mac. Basically, my mac can read the file, but not write to it. My PC reads and writes no problem. My friend wrote the perl and we are pretty much without answers at this point. If anyone has time to help/look at the .pl that would be great. You can test the calendar at http://debpasternak.com/newdeb/newseditor.html just click on edit calendar in the nav - the password is fred. I can send the .pl as attachment if someone is willing to take a look at it. thanks, Doug The problem was with the Flash, not with the Perl. GET /newdeb/cgi-bin/schedule.pl%0A%0A%0A?newText=St%2E+Nicholas+Daypassword=fredcurrTime=64730oldText=id=dec6done= Returns a 404 - /newdeb/cgi-bin/schedule.pl%0A%0A%0A - does not exist. This much should be reflected in Apache's error logs. You've since changed the password, so I gather you may have figured it out. -Charles Euonymic Solutions http://euonymic.com
Re: OT praise for the cookbook
At 1:31 PM -0500 11/27/2002, Dan Sugalski wrote: I don't think you want to wait that long. The cookbook for perl 6 would likely lag behind perl 6's first major release by at least 18 months--it's tough to document useful best practices for a language that's not out yet! I think it'd also be useful to hold a second edition up next to a third edition and say okay, here's how I would accomplish this in 5.8, and here's the Perl-6-ish was of accomplishing the same thing. -Charles Euonymic Solutions http://euonymic.com
Re: unix or mac-style text files?
On Monday, November 25, 2002, at 07:34 AM, Heather Madrone wrote: Administrivia question: I'm getting a lot of duplicate responsese because the Reply-to on the list is set to sender. On moderated lists, this can be a good idea because the approval cycle causes a lag between posting and mail reflection. Is the Reply-to merely a hint that we should consider taking topics offline, or is there some reason I should be leaving redundant addresses in the headers? More to the point, this list doesn't set Reply-To at all. There's a great deal of discussion at large about whether this is a good idea or not, but by-and-large, the From, To and Cc that come through are the same ones the Sender originally used. At 12:21 PM +1100 11/25/2002, Ken Williams replied: The extra copies are more for your convenience - I appreciate when people send them to me, because one copy goes to my list mailbox and the other goes to my inbox. The one in my inbox will be read faster. I wish there were a standard way to indicate in your own mail headers I do/don't wish to receive a direct copy of replies to this message. This can be done on usenet pretty effectively, but not really in email lists. Well, on lists like this one that don't munge the Reply-To header, if you designate a Reply-To on the outgoing mail, it should remain intact all the way to the end recipients. -Charles Euonymic Solutions [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Directory path error
At 2:57 AM +1100 11/1/2002, Shannon Murdoch wrote: When specifying a directory to glob in MacOS X it malfunctions if the path contains a space ie. /Users/sydneyshan/University of Newcastle/* Is there any way around this without needing to replace the directory's spaces with underscores etc? The standard ways are either quoting the entire string or escaping the spaces: '/Users/sydneyshan/University of Newcastle/*' /Users/sydneyshan/University\ of\ Newcastle/* When dragging from the Finder to Terminal, OS X uses the second approach. -Charles Euonymic Solutions [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: LWP install
At 10:50 AM +0100 10/30/2002, Tom Holland wrote: Please pardon my newbie foolishness Have a 10.2 Server system and am trying to install the LWP module via CPAN. This worked fine under a 10.1.5 system on a different machine (once I su'ed to root). (You get this message, because MakeMaker could not find /System/Library/Perl/darwin/CORE/perl.h) Does this mean Perl needs to be re-installed? Or is it merely a configuration problem? Have you installed the Development tools on this system? -Charles Euonymic Solutions [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: making files (and folders) (in)visible
At 1:53 PM -0800 10/29/2002, Rich Morin wrote: I can't find a command-line method (let alone a Perl function) to change the visibility of files and folders. Help? /Developer/Tools/SetFile -a V foo see the SetFile(1) manpage for details There may be some tricks with getting the Finder to recognize the file really is invisible. -Charles Albrecht Euonymic Solutions [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT?] How to run scripts on OS X (reference needed)
At 5:32 AM -0700 10/26/2002, Paul Goracke wrote: The number one problem encountered while going from MacPerl to OS X Perl is that your MacPerl scripts will almost definitely use Mac linefeeds, while OS X Perl requires Unix linefeeds. Change that using BBEdit or some other program (or even perl -i.bak -p -e 's/\r/\n/g' script). After that, assuming you've got a workable shebang (#!/usr/bin/perl or similar) at the beginning, you should be fine--your only worry would be any MacPerl-specific modules your script may have used. The other bits are setting the script to be executable and making certain it's in your path. chmod 755 perl_script.pl Then, ./perl_script.pl -C
Re: question on ssh and peeve on editors
At 2:32 PM -0400 10/3/2002, Chris Devers wrote: More broadly, the Finder can mount a variety of protocols, at least in Jaguar. Similar capability existed in 10.1 but it works better now. As Andrew says, just set the system focus to the Finder, hit cmd+K, then: smb://windows/share/point nfs://unix/share/point afs://appletalk/share/point ftp://ftpserver/path webdav://webdav/path -- not positive about the protocol here webdav is http://webdav/path But of course, none of these are encrypted. I don't know about 10.2, but in 10.1, the TLS-encrypted webdav sites I've put up can't be accessed from the finder using https:// I use interarchy's Edit in BBEdit mode when I need local access to a remote file over an encrypted connection, where saves are automatically sync'ed up. I believe MacSFTP and a few other options also support this mode. Interarchy also has a caching mode it calls an FTP disk (FTP or FTP over SSH - the next version will add SFTP to the options). The files you work with are local, but they look like they're on a mounted volume. -Charles Albrecht Euonymic Solutions [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cpantest
At 12:53 PM +1000 10/2/2002, Ken Williams wrote:
Here are the changes that I've made to http://testers.cpan.org/cpantest in order to
get it to work for me:
==
[...]
+@MAIL_OPEN_ARGS = ('smtp', Server = 'ee.usyd.edu.au');
[...]
==
You'll have to change it to a different SMTP server, of course - which you could
easily control from an environment variable so you don't have to hard-code it in the
script.
I haven't tried to get fixes for these problems incorporated upstream (or if I did,
it didn't happen), but it would be nice.
So it sounds like your problems were primarily with sendmail. Did you go through the
normal steps for getting sendmail to work on OS X? (Permissions on / and /Users or
setting a DontBlameSendmail flag, recompiling sendmail.cf)
-Charles
Euonymic Solutions
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dos2unix
At 7:54 PM +0200 9/30/2002, Adriano Allora wrote: On the one hand I didn't express myself very well, but for the other hand I found other aspects of the problem. Actual situation: I work with mac osx.2, vi editor, a pack of dos files to work on. When I open my files with vi I see some strings instead of stressed letters and signs. For instance: carriage return = ^M u grave = \xf9 [...] so, I don't know I can face the problem: to create an array of strings to substitute is a non-sense, because of I haven't got two lists in one-to-one correspondence... er, I suppose (I'm not sure). What's yous opinion about? I had the suspicion at the onset that this was a more involved issue than the line feed... % perl -pi -e s/(\015\012|\012|\015)/\n/g problem. The files were created using a character set that is different from the character set that vi is using. (My guess is that Terminal's using Mac-Roman, but other likely suspects are UTF-8 or ISO 8859-1.) You should be able to translate between the character sets fairly easily using Encode::Byte, but you'll need 5.7.3 or later - it's now part of the 5.8.0 core. You could probably borrow from the source to create a version that doesn't need the UTF-8 flag. There's also Unicode::Map8, which looks like it can similarly be leveraged to meet your needs. And of course, it's a moderately simple exercise to prepare a couple of hashes to map forward and backward between two character sets. -Charles Euonymic Solutions [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: installing dbi.pm on perl 5.6.0
Among other things, they include the header files needed to compile XS code for Perl modules. It may be possible to install pre-compiled modules using from other sources, but you won't be able to compile them yourself without the Developer Tools. -Charles [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 04:29:36PM -0500, Marijka Hambrecht wrote: No, I haven't installed the developer tools. I haven't been able to figure out what I would gain by installing them. The documentation included with the files seems very vague. On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 02:20:29PM -0500, Marijka Hambrecht wrote: (You get this message, because MakeMaker could not find /System/Library/Perl/darwin/CORE/perl.h) Have you installed the Developer Tools?
Re: DBD::Pg
On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 12:59:19PM +0100, Vincent D Murphy wrote: i have omitted the remainder of the output, it just says that the other tests are skipped. i presume this those symbols are the names of C functions, and that this a problem with XS code somewhere. but why the hell would a DBD driver be interested in SSL? i am hoping somebody else has followed this road less travelled [0] [1] with more success and can help me. 0. http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/index.html#03128 1. http://david.wheeler.net/osx.html I recompiled PostgreSQL without SSL (TLS) and then DBD::Pg compiled fine for me. -Charles Albrecht [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: iCal parser in Perl
At 12:37 AM -0500 9/17/2002, Puneet Kishor wrote: any move afoot to create an iCal .ics file parser in Perl to automagically create web calendars? some folks seem to be working on a PHP version. Would be nice to have one in Perl. Since the .ics files are in the iCalendar (RFC2445 )format, Date::ICal would probably be a good place to start. You may find some discussion at reefknot - http://reefknot.org/ - and on the reefknot sourceforge lists. -Charles [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Opening file with application
The docs - for open(1) in particular - might suggest something along the lines of: `open -a Microsoft Excel $foo` (or whatever the Excel executable happens to be called on the target system) But some versions of Excel (mine is ancient - YMMV with something newer than v.4) might refuse to open files with an unfamiliar type. -Charles [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 2:20 PM -0700 9/8/2002, Ward W. Vuillemot wrote: Not that I have an answer...but I have a similar problem. I can launch MS Excel and have it open a OTF generated file from Win32. But Mac OS X does not do itmaybe I should read the docs, but...if I backtick an `open /dir/to/msexcel` Excel opens, but the redirect, or `open /dir/to/msexcel $file`` does not work. That is to say, MS Excel (Classic) still opens from within Perl on Mac OS X, but I cannot get it to open the file itself...which is a pain in the butt. I figured if I got Mac OS X version MS Office things might get rectified, but I have yet to get an upgrade.
Re: DropScript recursive processing
More to the point, %ARGV -Charles [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 1:42 PM + 9/5/2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, you might call a script like this: perl foo.pl file1 file2 file3 where each argument to the script (in this case 3 files) is passed in to the script, separated by a space. If I created a DropScript out of my foo.pl, and dropped file1, file2, and file3 onto it, it would be just like typing the command above. Pete On Thu, 05 Sep 2002 20:37:20 +1000, Shannon Murdoch [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hi Pete, Unfortunately I'm not a command-line wiz :(. Could you explain how the target file/directory parameters are usually passed to the script when it IS called from the command line? Cheers, -Shannon On 5/9/02 2:59 AM, in article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: These are the notes I had on DropScript from April 23, 2002: In the old version of DropScript, it would run the script once for each file dropped on it. Now it takes all of the files dropped on it, and passes the list to DropScript, which is the way MacPerl droplets do it, or the way the command line does it... http://www.mit.edu/people/wsanchez/software/ I'm thinking it should take whatever you drop on it (file or folder) and pass it in just as if you called the script from the command line... -- http://fastmail.fm/ - Consolidate POP email and Hotmail in one place
Re: Installable packages
At 12:12 PM +1000 9/6/2002, Ken Williams wrote: Yo, I notice that there's an application /Developer/Applications/PackageMaker.app that can create installable OS X packages. If people would find it useful, I could make a couple of packages for installing perl and put them in my CPAN directory (and probably the ports/ directory too?). The following things could be useful: If you set things up with PackageMaker, I highly recommend familiarizing yourself with some of the problems with pax and the ways to get it to play well with customized installations. See, for instance, the article: http://www.stepwise.com/Articles/Technical/Packages/BuildingAPackage.html which is somewhat dated, but still useful. I'll reserve my criticism of Apple's overzealous use of the Overwrite Permissions flag for another time. -Charles [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: about .command and .term
At 7:36 AM -0700 7/15/2002, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Charles == Charles Albrecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Charles to have them appear on Terminal's submenu (for these - particular Charles the ssh variety - I also tend to edit the CustomTitle parameter Charles to keep them clear by their titles. Oooh. S3kr3t Mag1c instructions! Where is this documented? That's part of what frustrates me the most about OSX. It's like OS9... people pass around folklore instead of being able to just say man foo as on real unix to read the whole story. Especially when the included Terminal Help, is so verbosely helpful. The sum total of its help is: The Terminal application lets you use a command-line interface and BSD utility programs. My guess is that even though .term files are ordinary XML files, someone at Apple thinks they are opaque black boxes. It's certainly possible to edit all of these parameters within the GUI, but editing the files directly is certainly easier in most cases. I just wish it didn't involve so much by inspection work. -Charles [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: about .command and .term
At 3:36 PM -0700 7/12/2002, drieux wrote: which is mostly OK, since they appear to run with command ; exit but there are times when I would like to have something that runs as command without the 'auto' exit is there a way to do this with foo.term which seems to have a way to save a 'terminal session' () I use .term files by editing the ExecutionString value in the XML to have... keyExecutionString/key stringssh foo.bar.baz; exit/string behave as I want it to behave. Furthermore, I toss frequently-used .terms into ~/Library/Application Support/Terminal to have them appear on Terminal's submenu (for these - particular the ssh variety - I also tend to edit the CustomTitle parameter to keep them clear by their titles. -C
Re: perl compile on mac os X
At 5:39 PM -0400 7/8/2002, Geoffrey F. Green wrote: On 7/8/02 5:24 PM, Chaos Golubitsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm running mac os X (10.1.5), and am trying to install perl 5.6.1. i downloaded and unpacked stable.tar.gz from perl.com. There seem to be no special instructions for mac os X at all in the distro, so i thought i could just run Configure. Perl 5.6.1 was released before Mac OS X, so it doesn't account for OS X's quirks. Thus, it is a bit cranky about installing on Mac OS X, but it can be done. See: http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg00150.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg00895.html http://duke.usask.ca/~dalglb/macosx/Perl_5.6.html The upcoming Perl 5.8.0 will build on Mac OS X without any problems. You might also take a look at... http://david.wheeler.net/osx.html which references the second item above. (I think my results dealing with the locale issues the right way were sporadic enough that I just added 'd_setlocale=undef;' to the end of hints/darwin.sh and proceeded from there.) -C [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Error: Locating valid Perl during Module CPAN install
At 9:42 PM -0700 5/20/2002, Mark S Lowe wrote: (You get this message, because MakeMaker could not find /System/Library/Perl/darwin/CORE/perl.h) Running make test Make had some problems, maybe interrupted? Won't test Running make install Make had some problems, maybe interrupted? Won't install I have a standard 10.1.4 installation with a fresh OS X Perl installation. Meaning, no, I haven't messed up my default Perl installation yet. (smile) Have you installed the Developer tools? /System/Library/Perl/darwin/CORE/perl.h is part of the Developer tools instalation (the SDK part) and not part of the default install, so far as I can tell. On my system, the bills of materials for Developer.pkg.prev (March '01) and for DevSDK.pkg (Dec '01) are the only ones that list that file. -C
Re: Getting the path of a running process from OS X Perl
At 11:02 AM -0700 5/12/2002, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Charles == Charles Albrecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Charles #!/usr/bin/perl -w Charles system q(/usr/bin/open -a `/usr/bin/osascript -e 'tell application Finder to get name of application file id CWIE ' ` ); Gah. That's about four levels too deep. Maybe that was a joke. If not, this is simpler: my $path = `osascript -e 'tell application Finder to get name of application file id CWIE'`; True. And then once you have the $path, you can call open -a later to launch it. Or just do: system q(/usr/bin/osascript -e 'tell application Finder to open application file id CWIE'); And skip the later open call. It still doesn't trap for osa errors, but it's a place to start. -Charles [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Getting the path of a running process from OS X Perl
At 1:08 PM -0600 5/1/2002, Charles Albrecht wrote: % open -a BBEdit 6.5 file.txt will give you the desired effect. I don't know if it helps for Arshad's original question, though, as you still don't know the name of the app itself. For that (Arshad's original question), you can leverage the Finder and OSA, something along the lines of... #!/usr/bin/perl -w system q(/usr/bin/open -a `/usr/bin/osascript -e 'tell application Finder to get name of application file id CWIE ' ` ); __END__ -Charles [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Getting the path of a running process from OS X Perl
At 11:33 AM +1000 4/29/2002, Ken Williams wrote: Perhaps you don't need to. Maybe you could just use the open command in the shell (see man open) to open it without a path. You can do things like this: open -a com.barebones.bbedit file.txt That will find BBEdit, wherever it is, and launch it. A potential snafu is that it seems to require a file to open, you can't just launch the application by itself. Anyone know a way around this? In your example, com.barebones.bbedit is irrelevant. The reason it appears to work is that you very likely BBEdit set as the application used by default to open file.txt. This example is then the same as: % open file.txt Which is the same as double-clicking that file in the Finder. You need the actual name of the application. % open -a BBEdit 6.5 file.txt will give you the desired effect. I don't know if it helps for Arshad's original question, though, as you still don't know the name of the app itself. -Charles [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help with Apache installation
At 9:31 AM -0700 4/26/2002, David Wheeler wrote: On 4/26/02 8:39 AM, Ward W. Vuillemot [EMAIL PROTECTED] claimed: I thought I would go back to installing everything. Last time, when I installed Apache, I had had problems with the following command: SSL_BASE=/usr/local/src/openssl-0.9.6c/ \ ./configure \ --with-layout=Apache \ --enable-module=ssl \ --enable-module=rewrite \ --enable-module=so \ --activate-module=src/modules/perl/libperl.a \ --disable-shared=perl \ --without-execstrip Telling me that SSL_BASE is not understood. So I set it using % Setenv SSL_BASE /usr/local/src/openssl-0.9.6c/ % ./configure \ [...] Both of these should work -- I don't get it. Try switching to zsh and doing it again: % zsh % SSL_BASE=/usr/local/src/openssl-0.9.6c/ \ ./configure \ --with-layout=Apache \ --enable-module=ssl \ --enable-module=rewrite \ --enable-module=so \ --activate-module=src/modules/perl/libperl.a \ --disable-shared=perl \ --without-execstrip etc. If you prefer to use the default tcsh, this will work: % env SSL_BASE=/usr/local/src/openssl-0.9.6c/ \ ./configure \ --with-layout=Apache \ --enable-module=ssl \ --enable-module=rewrite \ --enable-module=so \ --activate-module=src/modules/perl/libperl.a \ --disable-shared=perl \ --without-execstrip Note that --with-layout=Apache will install in /usr/local as noted elsewhere in this thread. Leaving it off or using --with-layout=Darwin will install it over Apple's defaults. -Charles Albrecht [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mod_perl stopped working...
At 11:55 AM -0700 4/11/2002, Alex S wrote: My real point is not a matter of technical savviness. It's more that something Apple pushed out broke something I, and others have setup. I might even have been more cautious about the update IF they listed it as something being updated, which they did NOT do. Alex, http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=120111 lists only the security-related components in the update. If you are concerned about the complete contents of an update (and I would suggest that in any case where you are in the habit of replacing apple-supplied binaries you do), I recommend that you examine an exhaustive manifest before performing the install. If you can't find a site that publishes a manifest, then learn how to extract one for yourself using lsbom(8) or pax(1) or using a tool like pacifist. In this case, Apple listed mod_ssl 2.8.7 (technically 2.8.7-1.3.23 as mod_ssl is always paired with specific apache versions) as the updated version. This implies that Apache would be updated to 1.3.23. From that, it stands to reason that a number - if not most - of the Apple-delivered DSOs would be recompiled as well and included in the install. A good low-noise site for keeping track of these sort of updates and their implications is Stepwise. Their announcement on the update http://www.stepwise.com/Articles/News/2002-04-05.01.html includes Apache-specific information. They don't provide perl mod_perl instructions on Stepwise, but if Apple changes something with Apache, they'll flag it and you can notice it there. As others have noted, there is nothing new under the sun. These issues are common to all *nix packaging systems. Those who don't want Apple to break what they've installed should either install things in other locations (fink does this, from what I understand) or leave the Apple- installed packages alone. It's a good lesson to learn. It's unfortunate that it's more frequently learned firsthand than through secondhand annectodal accounts. -Charles [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bizarre expansion from the command line
At 4:25 PM -0800 3/13/2002, Iago wrote: On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, Gary Blackburn wrote: Anyone have any idea what's going on? The ! isn't one of the metcharacters, and all this code works exactly as expected whenever you run it within an actual Perl file (i.e., not from a one-liner.) I tried this code on Linux and ActiveState Perl and everything works fine, which makes me think it's an OS X/Darwin thing. Thoughts? Thanks! It's the shell that's doing it -- the ! operator is telling the shell to (in short) do stuff... when you're escaping the !, you're escaping it for the shell, not for perl. Yeah, what Fred said. The stuff it's doing is looking backwards through the history of commands entered on the command line and filling that in. Common examples are: !!for the previous command !-4 to go back four and execute that command !15 to use the 15th command (they're numbered when you call history) !vi to go back to the most recently used command starting with 'vi' So, for instance: % clear; !! % !-3 | less % ls -ld `!find` % bbedit `!grep --files-with-matches` -Charles [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SUCCESS: libapreq working in Mac OS X
At 12:17 PM -0500 2/22/2002, Joe Schaefer wrote: Ged Haywood [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi there, On 22 Feb 2002, Joe Schaefer wrote: 3) Install libapreq.so.1.0.0 (to /usr/local/lib) using: % ./configure % make % make install 4) Now install Apache::Request and Apache::Cookie using % perl Makefile.PL % make % make install Should that be % make % su # make install Sure. Or better yet, % make % sudo make install -- Charles Albrecht Euonymic Solutions [EMAIL PROTECTED] P.O. Box 300623 C303.619.7596 F978.334.3061 Denver, Colorado 80203-0623 http://www.euonymic.net/~charlesa/cv/
Re: Lastlog
At 2:11 PM -0500 2/19/2002, Bill Jones wrote: So I did a touch /var/log/lastlog Now I get - Feb 19 14:04:13 sneex sshd[835]: lastlog_get_entry: Error reading from /var/log/lastlog: Device not configured Any ideas? I did much the same on my systems. I've got it set root:wheel and 644. Could that be the issue for you? -Charles
Re: psync fails with 5.7.2
At 9:42 AM +0900 2/6/2002, Dan Kogai wrote: As for psetfinfo, yes, pod needs some polishing. Pod-linting is very welcome (But I have to tell you, too that SetFile, which functionalities psetfinfo based upon, doesn't even come with manpage!) Dan, perhaps you mean GetFileInfo. SetFile's manpage is installed by default at /usr/share/man/man1/SetFile.1 -Charles [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Walkthrough for the Perl compile problem?
At 10:02 AM -0500 1/23/2002, Frank Nospam wrote: Also, Apple says that with their default Apache running, I should be able to use the default CGIs. However, http://localhost/printenv returns a 404 for me. What's going wrong? I can't answer the other ones, but this one is fairly straightforward. If you take a look at /var/log/httpd/error_log, it will show an error along the lines of: [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: /Library/WebServer/Documents/printenv So, this isn't the correct place where printenv lives and it isn't the correct way to access it. % locate printenv Shows that it's at: /Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables/printenv The configuration file at /etc/httpd/httpd.conf includes this bit: IfModule mod_alias.c #[.. snip ..] # # ScriptAlias: This controls which directories contain server scripts. # ScriptAliases are essentially the same as Aliases, except that # documents in the realname directory are treated as applications and # run by the server when requested rather than as documents sent to the client. # The same rules about trailing / apply to ScriptAlias directives as to # Alias. # ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables/ # # /Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables should be changed to whatever your ScriptAliased # CGI directory exists, if you have that configured. # Directory /Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables AllowOverride None Options None Order allow,deny Allow from all /Directory /IfModule So, the correct path is: http://localhost/cgi-bin/printenv But on my system, that also fails, /var/log/httpd/error_log shows: [client 127.0.0.1] file permissions deny server execution: /Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables/printenv Checking that file, % ls -ld /Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables/printenv Shows me that its executable bits aren't set. If I set those, % sudo chmod +x /Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables/printenv The URL, http://localhost/cgi-bin/printenv now works. For safety, though, it's good to disable CGIs that you don't actively need with: % sudo chmod -x /Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables/printenv just in case someone finds a security flaw with one of the factory-installed CGIs. -Charles [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Comments not working
At 5:53 PM +0100 1/22/2002, Brad Paton wrote: Anyone have any clues why a perl script run from the command line would stop parsing after reading a commented line? When I invoke the script via perl p1.pl from the shell without a #!/usr/local/perl comment on the first line, it works fine, but with it, or any other comment, the script stops executing any code following the comment. TIA brad Are you using unix newlines (linefeeds) for your file? I would expect this behavior with traditional Mac newlines (carriage returns). Many text editors allow you to toggle the type of line endings before saving a file. (The file appears as a single line to Perl. Everything after the first # looks like a comment.) -Charles [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dueling Double Dock Icons?!?!
At 3:09 PM -0500 12/17/2001, Robert Mah wrote: Quick followup -- if I wait long enough (30 seconds or so) the first icon actually does stop bouncing. But you still can't select it and it doesn't have the running indicator triangle. Does it have the normal menu items Show in Finder, Keep in Dock, etc? -Charles [EMAIL PROTECTED]
