Re: [OT] Better Linux server platform: Redhat or SuSe?

2002-07-04 Thread Frank D. Cringle
Nick Tonkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm confused. Since when did bloat surpass elegance as a measure of success in Perl programming? Indeed. Generic question: How many lines of code have you spent today? -- Frank Cringle, [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: (+49 7745) 928759; fax: 928761

Re: open(FH,'|qmail-inject') fails

2000-09-07 Thread Frank D. Cringle
Nicolas MONNET [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Might be a faq, but why would open(FH,'|qmail-inject') fail with fatal: read-error from within mod_perl? Are the files in /var/qmail/control world readable? Is QMAILMFTFILE defined in the environment and pointing to a file that the httpd process cannot

Re: Trouble compiling mod_perl 1.24 with Apache 1.3.12

2000-08-09 Thread Frank D. Cringle
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (William R. Ward) writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: please use the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list for support questions. Then please put that e-mail address somewhere obvious on the perl.apache.org website. Yours was the only one I could find. (It was listed as [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Feature sets [was Re: Templating System]

2000-07-29 Thread Frank D. Cringle
Ken Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank D. Cringle) wrote: unconstructive grumble This sounds dreadfully microsoftian. Trashcan: check; Bouncing paperclip: check. Well yeah, if you choose features that nobody cares about, then nobody will care whether the package

Re: Feature sets [was Re: Templating System]

2000-07-28 Thread Frank D. Cringle
Drew Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ken Williams wrote: I suggest having not just a simple checkmark, but a 3-way check. A system either supports a feature, or it doesn't, or it *optionally* supports it (can be switched on and off). This is often very helpful to know, and might

Re: can't properly append to file from mod_perl script

2000-06-29 Thread Frank D. Cringle
Vivek Khera [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: "RE" == Rob Egan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: RE CGI scripts to behave in mod_perl. All it does is capture e-mail addresses, RE and place them in a text file so we can gather them up later and drop them RE into a database. If you run the script as a

Re: stripping CRLF on the way out?

2000-06-22 Thread Frank D. Cringle
Dave DeMaagd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Have an application that generates nicely formatted HTML (from templates, so that they can be easily edited), but since there's a awful lot of extra line breaks (and other things, like comments) that we'd like to strip out (save bandwidth), is there an

Re: Is there are secret way to unsubscribe from this mailing list?

2000-05-01 Thread Frank D. Cringle
Lloyd Zusman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've been sending email to `[EMAIL PROTECTED]' almost every day for the past week or two, but I still keep receiving email from this list. The list is run using ezmlm. Sending mail to modperl-unsubscribe is just the first step in the process. You

Re: PerlSendHeader

2000-04-29 Thread Frank D. Cringle
"Benjamin Reed" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've turned off PerlSendHeader, but no matter what I do, it seems that I'm already getting headers before I ever print anything. If you turn PerlSendHeader off, you are responsible for sending the headers yourself. In the Apache API, and mod_perl's

Re: I give up... I'm just going to follow the instructions....

2000-01-27 Thread Frank D. Cringle
John Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After fighting with RedHat SWS and never being sure if what went wrong was my scripts' fault or some wierdness in my Apache/mod_perl/RedHat-SSL, I'm going to follow the instructions in the guide to make my own. (Would have saved a lot of time if I just

Re: Perl 5 DBI link?

2000-01-25 Thread Frank D. Cringle
jiminy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: PS - this is my first time to post here. Most mailing lists I've seen have as the reply-to the address of the list, however this one doesn't seem to have that feature, so that when I just reply to a message, it does to the poster, not the list. Am I perceiving

DSO SEGV fix (was: A fix in sight: Apache::ASP: crash when placed in startup.pl)

2000-01-16 Thread Frank D. Cringle
Daniel Jacobowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This worked! Can I get opinions on the attached patch? I am not competent to check whether the patch has any hidden problems, but I hope Doug will be able to evaluate it and include it in the next release. Your description of the sequence leading up

Re: how come httpd doesn't start even though startup.pl is fine? (fwd)

2000-01-14 Thread Frank D. Cringle
Ricardo Kleemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi everyone, I don't know what's causing this, and there are no errors being logged in my error_log. I'm running apache 1.3.9, mod_perl 1.21, linux 6.1 I have a startup.pl with a bunch of modules in it. If I run the startup.pl by itself it is

Re: how come httpd doesn't start even though startup.pl is fine? (fwd)

2000-01-14 Thread Frank D. Cringle
Ricardo Kleemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hmmm :-( On 14 Jan 2000, Frank D. Cringle wrote: Without having checked your list, I'll wager that the "good" modules are all pure perl and the "bad" ones use machine-language XS extensions. So typical modules lik

Re: Embperl [- -] annoyance

1999-11-09 Thread Frank D. Cringle
David Bushong [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A few times in the past months (I've been playing with Embperl a lot, it's a hell of a lot more fun than JSP, straight CGI, or shudder HTML::Template), I have been trying to resist asking this, but it's no use: why shudder? [ I'm a recent convert to

Re: Trouble sending mail under modperl...

1999-10-26 Thread Frank D. Cringle
Dave Mee [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, mod_perloids. I'm having a gutfull of trouble sending mail under mod_perl. I'm doing it by the books, to wit, the cookbook and the bigbirdie book, under rh linux 5.2. the code is warn ("MAIL: Opening sendmail... path is

Re: [SITE] the great redesign of 1999

1999-10-15 Thread Frank D. Cringle
Stas Bekman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My personal comment on both of your previews, is that they are very cool! But while being flattered with having a Guide as part of the main menu, this is unfair to other folks who wrote an invaluable documentation (Vivek, Frank and other). For my part,

Re: Mailing List Subject Headers

1999-10-08 Thread Frank D. Cringle
"Anthony Gardner" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm not sure if I'm being a bit fussy here, or indeed banging my head against a wall but can users of these mailing lists make the Subject part of the msg more descriptive. This will help readers to scroll through quicker and to read what is

Re: Guide addition?

1999-10-07 Thread Frank D. Cringle
"Andrei A. Voropaev" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Would it be possible to remove everything after __END__ before wrapping it into a function? That requires a full-blown perl parser, to decide if __END__ is really __END__. print "Content-type: text/plain\n\n" print EOT; # Example perl code # #

Re: CGI.pm not maintaing values..

1999-01-03 Thread Frank D. Cringle
Ofer Inbar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alex Krohn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (mis)handles lexically scoped variables. This oddity only comes into play if you use a lexical variable in a block *and* a sub-block of that block, and you run that same code multiple times, and the values are not