RE: [e-smith-devinfo] Perl programmers - help for a lowly unworthy newbie

2002-05-10 Thread Tom Carroll
Ah ha!!! Thank you - thank you - thank you! I completely missed that on all twenty rereads of the example. I guess this is where experience starts to build - remembering past mistakes and understand *exactly* how functions work. :) Tom Carroll Dataware Computers -Original Message- Fro

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Perl programmers - help for a lowly unworthy newbie

2002-05-10 Thread Greg Zartman
> The example does not show the use of the -w switch, but it is used in > previous examples. If I take out the -w switch it does not show me the > error, but it still behaves the same. This is actually quite common when coding in perl. The -w compile time option does a bunch of common logic ch

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Perl for dummies!!!

2002-05-10 Thread Greg Zartman
> "Learning perl" (the camel book). Actually, "The Camel" is Programming Perl, not Learning Perl. Learning Perl is the Oreily book with a lama or something on the front. In any event, I found Learning Perl very difficult to follow. It would be especially difficult if you are not familar wi

RE: [e-smith-devinfo] Looking for..... Log parsing etc functionality

2002-05-10 Thread Kevin Flanagan
Trevor, The howto says that it's assumed that you have two NICS and are in Gateway/server mode. Do you have any experiences with dedicated server only? I have a test system that I'll install it on anyways, and will post my experience, but wonder if you or anyone else has tried it. K

RE: [e-smith-devinfo] Perl programmers - help for a lowly unworthy newbie

2002-05-10 Thread Tom Carroll
Thanks Keith. It does help. I have, however figured out another error with the script in the next lesson. #!/usr/bin/perl %words = qw( fred camel barneyllama betty alpaca wilma alpaca ); print "What is your name? "; $name = ; chomp ($name); $orig

RE: [e-smith-devinfo] there was an announcement of an updated Jabber package several weeks ago

2002-05-10 Thread Jon Blakely
Original message is http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo@lists.e-smith.org/msg08964.html Jon -Original Message- From: TC Litwiller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, 11 May 2002 2:40 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [e-smith-devinfo] there was an announcemen

[e-smith-devinfo] RE: Development tools [was RE: [e-smith-devinfo] WebShare project...]

2002-05-10 Thread P. Sanchez
>However everyone on this list may find it very beneficial to install these >development tools I and others have come to find invaluable: > >http://myezserver.com/downloads/mitel/contrib/dev-tools/ > >Make SME development a whole lot easier :-) correct, thats one of the things I install right aft

RE: [e-smith-devinfo] WebShare project Apache::Htpasswd perl module question?

2002-05-10 Thread P. Sanchez
>= Original Message From John Cusick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> = >True Placido, > >I have make installed on my system and this will only work for if you do >not require gcc for the software. For example, perl-DBI will not compile >without gcc. > >That said, for the simpler perl modules needed on

[e-smith-devinfo] Perl programmers - help for a lowly unworthy newbie

2002-05-10 Thread Tom Carroll
Folks, where better to ask than in a forum for developers, many of you Perl wizards. :) I have asked this in my local LUG, but I have not received an explanation as to the why's. Okay, here I sit going through my new, although outdated, book "Learning Perl", and I am diligently typing in all the

RE: [e-smith-devinfo] Perl for dummies!!!

2002-05-10 Thread Tom Carroll
Brandon, I am presently on chapter one of that book. I picked up the second edition at the bookstore for only $7.99USD. It was quite a bargain over the original price. So far so good, but I have already run into a problem with one of the examples. Maybe I should post it here if I don't get any

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Perl for dummies!!!

2002-05-10 Thread Charlie Brady
On Fri, 10 May 2002, Rich Lafferty wrote: > Take a look at 'perldoc perl' for a list of the reference and tutorial > documentation that comes with Perl. If you happen to be logged in as root, use "perldoc -U perl". [But if you've tried, you'll already know that, since perldoc will have told yo

[e-smith-devinfo] Development tools [was RE: [e-smith-devinfo] WebShare project...]

2002-05-10 Thread Darrell May
"P. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > because SME doesn't come with them. Agreed. However everyone on this list may find it very beneficial to install these development tools I and others have come to find invaluable: http://myezserver.com/downloads/mitel/contrib/dev-tools/ Make SME devel

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Perl for dummies!!!

2002-05-10 Thread Charlie Brady
On Fri, 10 May 2002, Brandon Friedman wrote: > Any suggestions on building some decent perl knowledge to work on SME? "Learning perl" (the camel book). "Perl Cookbook" (the bighorn sheep book). http://www.e-smith.org/ man perl man perlfunc ... perldoc esmith::util perldoc esmith::config ...

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] WebShare project Apache::Htpasswd perl module question?

2002-05-10 Thread John Cusick
True Placido, I have make installed on my system and this will only work for if you do not require gcc for the software. For example, perl-DBI will not compile without gcc. That said, for the simpler perl modules needed on a system, this is quick and easy, and the perl rpm site does not alway

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Changing SSL certificate info

2002-05-10 Thread Charlie Brady
On Fri, 10 May 2002, Brandon Friedman wrote: > I know how to regenerate the SSL cert for server. > > Is there an easy way to change the info... > > Organization :XYZ Corporation? > > How do I change it? http://www.e-smith.org/docs/manual/5.1/configdirectory.html -- Charlie Brady

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] WebShare project Apache::Htpasswd perl modulequestion?

2002-05-10 Thread Charlie Brady
On Fri, 10 May 2002, John Cusick wrote: > That said, for the simpler perl modules needed on a system, this is > quick and easy, and the perl rpm site does not always have the ones I > need or want. In other words, it's handy and quick ;-) Get the best of both worlds - install the cpan2rpm RPM

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] WebShare project Apache::Htpasswd perl modulequestion?

2002-05-10 Thread Charlie Brady
On Fri, 10 May 2002, John Cusick wrote: > You can also run this as root from the CLI > > # perl -MCPAN -e 'install "APACHE::HTpasswd"' > > This single command will download the latest version, build, and install > all at once. The problem with doing it that way is that you lose the capabilit

[e-smith-devinfo] ANNOUNCEMENT - WebShare beta released

2002-05-10 Thread Darrell May
OK folks. Our initial beta release of the WebShare project is available here: http://myezserver.com/downloads/mitel/beta/webshare/ [Note] this has been a major rewrite so if you installed our alpha code on your non-production server (right?) please remove and do some clean up. So 'AT YOUR OWN

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Perl for dummies!!!

2002-05-10 Thread Rich Lafferty
On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 08:17:22AM -0700, P. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >= Original Message From Brandon Friedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> = > >Yes I said it!!! > > > >I basically have 0 perl skills but I am finding it increasingly > >frustrating as these perls scripts pop-up in all s

RE: [e-smith-devinfo] Perl for dummies!!!

2002-05-10 Thread P. Sanchez
>= Original Message From Brandon Friedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> = >Yes I said it!!! > >I basically have 0 perl skills but I am finding it increasingly >frustrating as these perls scripts pop-up in all sorts of places! > >Might aswell stand on my head and try read them..:) > >Any suggestions

RE: [e-smith-devinfo] WebShare project Apache::Htpasswd perl module question?

2002-05-10 Thread P. Sanchez
>= Original Message From John Cusick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> = >Darrell, > >You can also run this as root from the CLI > ># perl -MCPAN -e 'install "APACHE::HTpasswd"' > >This single command will download the latest version, build, and install >all at once. yes, but the machine that is been i

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] WebShare project Apache::Htpasswd perl module question?

2002-05-10 Thread Darrell May
John Cusick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Darrell, > > You can also run this as root from the CLI > > # perl -MCPAN -e 'install "APACHE::HTpasswd"' Thanks John. -- Darrell May DMC Netsourced.com http://netsourced.com http://myEZserver.com -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] WebShare project Apache::Htpasswd perl module question?

2002-05-10 Thread Darrell May
Charlie Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > On Fri, 10 May 2002, Darrell May wrote: > > > My question is, can we make this module into an rpm or is this process > > necessary for perl modules? > > Try here: > > http://ftp.iinet.net.au/linux/redhat/7.1/en/DMA/CPAN/ Thanks Charlie. That had what

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Changing SSL certificate info

2002-05-10 Thread Brandon Friedman
Hi Guys Found this link in the forums: http://www.thawte.com/certs/server/keygen/apachessl.html Works nice and easy! Dan Brown wrote: > Quoting Brandon Friedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >>I know how to regenerate the SSL cert for server. >> >>Is there an easy way to change the info... >> >

[e-smith-devinfo] there was an announcement of an updated Jabber package several weeks ago

2002-05-10 Thread TC Litwiller
I can't seem to find it I found a reply to the announcement but not the original the title is ANNOUNCEMENT - Updated Jabber IM rpm available from Jon Blakely [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Perl for dummies!!!

2002-05-10 Thread Brandon Friedman
Thanks.. gonna by it this weekend! Amazon.com here I come! Rich Lafferty wrote: > Plenty of people will recommend _Learning Perl_ by Randal Schwartz and > Tom Phoenix. It's a perfectly fine book, but I tend to recommend > Nigel Chapman's "Perl: A Programmer's Companion", which is more > orient

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Perl for dummies!!!

2002-05-10 Thread john
Brandon, 'Learning Perl' (the llama book) from O'Reilly is pretty good for self-teaching. http://www.bookpool.com/ has it at a very reasonable price. John C. Quoting Brandon Friedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Yes I said it!!! > > I basically have 0 perl skills but I am finding it increasin

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Changing SSL certificate info

2002-05-10 Thread Dan Brown
Quoting Brandon Friedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I know how to regenerate the SSL cert for server. > > Is there an easy way to change the info... To change the info, you need to build a new cert. The only way I know of to do that is either by running openssl by hand or by using scripts to

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Perl for dummies!!!

2002-05-10 Thread Rich Lafferty
On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 04:01:12PM +0200, Brandon Friedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes I said it!!! > > I basically have 0 perl skills but I am finding it increasingly > frustrating as these perls scripts pop-up in all sorts of places! > > Might aswell stand on my head and try read them..

[e-smith-devinfo] Changing SSL certificate info

2002-05-10 Thread Brandon Friedman
I know how to regenerate the SSL cert for server. Is there an easy way to change the info... Organization :XYZ Corporation? How do I change it? -- Regards Brandon Friedman Cell:083 408 7840 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.bfconsult.co.za -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail

[e-smith-devinfo] Perl for dummies!!!

2002-05-10 Thread Brandon Friedman
Yes I said it!!! I basically have 0 perl skills but I am finding it increasingly frustrating as these perls scripts pop-up in all sorts of places! Might aswell stand on my head and try read them..:) Any suggestions on building some decent perl knowledge to work on SME? I understand it won't be

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] WebShare project Apache::Htpasswd perl module question?

2002-05-10 Thread John Cusick
Darrell, You can also run this as root from the CLI # perl -MCPAN -e 'install "APACHE::HTpasswd"' This single command will download the latest version, build, and install all at once. The beauty of perl in action. John C. Darrell May wrote: >We are using the Apache::Htpasswd perl module f

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] WebShare project Apache::Htpasswd perl modulequestion?

2002-05-10 Thread Charlie Brady
On Fri, 10 May 2002, Darrell May wrote: > My question is, can we make this module into an rpm or is this process > necessary for perl modules? Try here: http://ftp.iinet.net.au/linux/redhat/7.1/en/DMA/CPAN/ or any other RedHat CPAN mirror. -- Charlie Brady [EMAIL PROT

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] WebShare project Apache::Htpasswd perl module question?

2002-05-10 Thread Pierluigi Miranda
Hi Darrell, you wrote: > My question is, can we make this module into an rpm or is this process > necessary for perl modules? If I remember well, I found PERL modules RPMs in the RH FTP tree, so it's possible to make them up as binary RPMs... Don't know how, though. Guess it's a matter of copyi