Re: Access External Hard Drive - Local and Network

2004-05-02 Thread Mark Wheeler
Hi all, I posted this on this forum but under a different Subject. Here is the finished script for those who might be interested. Thanks to all who helped me with this. Mark --- #!/usr/bin/perl -w use stri

Re: Copy file from PC to Mac on network using cron and perl

2004-05-02 Thread Mark Wheeler
Hi Ronan, Here is the script in it's functioning state. You can easily modify it to your specs. It's not very complicated. Marny thanks, again, to all who helped out on this project. Mark - #!/usr/bin/p

Re: [slightlyOT] reading logs with long urls

2004-05-02 Thread Joel Rees
On 2004.5.3, at 09:36 AM, Sherm Pendley wrote: On May 2, 2004, at 8:17 PM, Joel Rees wrote: I think I was told by someone that Perl's input buffer would adjust to this kind of insanely long line. Does it slow the input down much to have to re-allocate the buffer? I doubt it. This sort of stuff is

Re: backing up using DejaVu

2004-05-02 Thread Joseph Alotta
Jerry, On May 1, 2004, at 2:58 PM, Jerry LeVan wrote: You might try one more time, the first time takes the longest, subsequent invocations just looks at differences... I can't think of any reason why the program is chewing cpu after the task is finished. It works by calling psync ( a perl progr

Re: [slightlyOT] reading logs with long urls

2004-05-02 Thread Sherm Pendley
On May 2, 2004, at 8:17 PM, Joel Rees wrote: I think I was told by someone that Perl's input buffer would adjust to this kind of insanely long line. Does it slow the input down much to have to re-allocate the buffer? I doubt it. This sort of stuff is precisely what Perl was originally made to do

Re: XML::LibXML find one node

2004-05-02 Thread Sherm Pendley
On May 2, 2004, at 6:58 PM, Ingo Weiss wrote: I am using XML::LibXML's findnodes method to find XML nodes. Most of the time I am looking for a single node, but I still need to write: @allnodes = $xmlDox->findnodes("XPathExpression"); $myNode = $allNodes[0]; and others, but nothing worked so far. An

[slightlyOT] reading logs with long urls

2004-05-02 Thread Joel Rees
My apache log files show that I'm getting two or more of those long url attacks every day, and access_log grows to over 4Mb in just a week, in spite of the fact that there are less than ten valid accesses in any particular day. So, I'm going to write a daily script to compress-and-rotate. (4M c

XML::LibXML find one node

2004-05-02 Thread Ingo Weiss
Hi All, I am using XML::LibXML's findnodes method to find XML nodes. Most of the time I am looking for a single node, but I still need to write: @allnodes = $xmlDox->findnodes("XPathExpression"); $myNode = $allNodes[0]; While this works perfectly fine, I find it counterintuitive when revisiting

Re: cookie doesn't expire

2004-05-02 Thread Ingo Weiss
Thanks, Bill I am using Safari for checking my cookies, and I swear that once my cookie was LISTED with an expiration time of "yesterday", which didn't prevent the it from being retrieved just fine! (I can't reproduce this now since Safari lists all expiration times that are today as "today") I am

Re: backing up system

2004-05-02 Thread Joel Rees
I just tried it, and the application can be downloaded & installed just fine, but if you try to run it you're asked for a .Mac login to procede. I don't suppose there was an option for selecting the .Mac server? I have some vague memory that Mac OS X server includes the ability to set up and prov

Re: cookie doesn't expire

2004-05-02 Thread Bill Stephenson
On May 2, 2004, at 7:44 AM, Ingo Weiss wrote: Hi all, this is a beginner cookie question: I am able to retrieve a cookie even after it is supposed to expire. If this is how it's supposed to be, how can I tell whether the cookie is expired? Thanks Ingo Your cookie probably hasn't really expired. If

cookie doesn't expire

2004-05-02 Thread Ingo Weiss
Hi all, this is a beginner cookie question: I am able to retrieve a cookie even after it is supposed to expire. If this is how it's supposed to be, how can I tell whether the cookie is expired? Thanks Ingo

Re: backing up system

2004-05-02 Thread Chris Devers
On Fri, 30 Apr 2004, Chris Nandor wrote: > I believe Backup.app is only available to .Mac subscribers, but the > app itself does not require a .Mac account, or being online, any > longer. You can back up to any local volume (including shared volumes > over the network). I just tried it, and the

Re: backing up system

2004-05-02 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 02/05/2004 @ 11:57 +0100, Christian Hansen, [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote: >Chris Nandor wrote: >> I believe Backup.app is only available to .Mac subscribers, but the >>app >> itself does not require a .Mac account, or being online, any longer. >>You >> can back up to any local volume (includin

Re: backing up system

2004-05-02 Thread Christian Hansen
Chris Nandor wrote: I believe Backup.app is only available to .Mac subscribers, but the app itself does not require a .Mac account, or being online, any longer. You can back up to any local volume (including shared volumes over the network). It's freely available at http://www.apple.com/downloa