RE: Win2K User Collection

2002-08-21 Thread Dave Roth
Memory leak? What memory leak? ;) Remember, guys, this is open source..feel free to patch it and submit the fix. Hint, hint. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 10:40 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Win2K User

Win32::Process::Create Issues

2002-08-21 Thread Gossett, Malachy
Title: Message I posted this to the Win32-Users group already, but possibly some else will have seen this issue.   Issue 1   I have a situation where two processes have to be created from the same script.  I'm using Win32::Process::Create to do this.  The first app, (let's call it 'The Hel

RE: Perl Case Statement

2002-08-21 Thread Gossett, Malachy
The only 'CASE' structure in PERL (which is a gripe of mine as well) is with the 'SWITCH' statement. The PERL base documentation has examples as well as the PERL Black book. I think even the PERL for Dummies has it, but I'm not suggesting anything with that. -Original Message- From: Ail

Perl Case Statement

2002-08-21 Thread Ailes, Kevin
Ok, I looked up some documentation and found something that might work. The only problem is I'm unfamiliar with the particular task that is described in the docs. Here is what it says in the docs... - A totally different approach is to create a hash of function references. my %comma

RE: Win32::EventLog

2002-08-21 Thread Douglas . Hornyak
I seem to recall that the backup API only backs up to that server's local drive, not the local drive that your script is running on. So the "C:\\mike\\$myServer\\$eventLog" folder may need to pre-exist on the remote system. Does this ring a bell to anyone? -Original Message- From: Glen

Win32::EventLog

2002-08-21 Thread Glenn Meyer
I need a little help with the libwin32 Win32::EventLog module, please. My version of libwin32 is 0.18 My version of Perl is 5.6.1 build 531 on Windows 2000 Pro. Using the example #2 script right off of the CPAN documentation page http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/CPAN/data/libwin32/EventLog/EventLo

RE: Win2K User Collection

2002-08-21 Thread Douglas . Hornyak
I had attempted to use it in a recursive ACL collection subroutine. It refuses to release memory, which becomes a problem on large file systems. I posted a few times to this list before giving up on it. The only solutions were a) call Win32::Perms from a separate program - guaranteed memory rel

RE: Win2K User Collection

2002-08-21 Thread Timothy Johnson
My only beef with Win32::Perms so far is that the recurse method could stand to be rewritten to work more intuitively. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 7:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Win2K User Collection

RE: Perl Case statement

2002-08-21 Thread Timothy Johnson
I think that if you look on CPAN you will find a module that emulates that kind of structure. http://search.cpan.org -Original Message- From: Lanteigne, Bob P. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 8:28 PM To: 'Ailes, Kevin'; Perl-win32-admin list ([EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: Perl Case statement

2002-08-21 Thread Lanteigne, Bob P.
perldoc -q case -Original Message- From: Ailes, Kevin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 1:20 PM To: Perl-win32-admin list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Subject: Perl Case statement Way back when I was programming on unix in various shells, I remember a function that was

Perl Case statement

2002-08-21 Thread Ailes, Kevin
Way back when I was programming on unix in various shells, I remember a function that was called "case". It allowed me to execute a set of commands depending on some input values.(it basically let me set up a menu system for specialized scripts) I don't remember the exact syntax, but I am lookin

RE: Win2K User Collection

2002-08-21 Thread Douglas . Hornyak
I have his book, and I'm not buying the second one unless he fixes the memory leak in Win32::Perms hint, hint ;-) -Original Message- From: Timothy Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 1:33 PM To: 'Steven Manross'; Hornyak, Douglas; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subje

RE: Win2K User Collection

2002-08-21 Thread Timothy Johnson
And don't forget to pick up a copy of dave roth's Win32 Perl Administrator's Handbook (I'm not sure if I got the name exactly right, check out http://www.roth.net) -Original Message- From: Steven Manross [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 7:24 PM To: '[EMAIL PROT

Perl Presentation

2002-08-21 Thread Stanley . G . Martin
I've been charged with putting together a "Brown Bag" session for a group of application people on what Perl is and what it does for me as a System Administrator and what it might do for them. Anyone know of a place to get some good information to help put this together. Most of these people ha

RE: Win2K User Collection

2002-08-21 Thread Steven Manross
Win32::OLE.. There are tons of examples to search through on Activestate's mailing list archive site. Check it out! http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/ Steven -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 10:05 AM To: [EMA

RE: Occasional error with $ADobject->CreateMailbox($storeDN);

2002-08-21 Thread Steven Manross
Where's the perl script running? NT4 or W2K? I've had similar issues with ADSI and NT4, where an intermittent issue got worse and worse. No matter what I did to intermittently fix the issue at hand, in the long run, it came back to haunt me. I've been running fine on W2K ever since I dumped my

Win2K User Collection

2002-08-21 Thread Douglas . Hornyak
Title: Win2K User Collection I have an NT4 script which uses Win32::AdminMisc::GetUsers but when I point it to AD it only grabs users from the default OUs (Builtin and Users). My organization has moved them, as most have... Before I go either trying each module or writing ldap queries, can a

RE: Occasional error with $ADobject->CreateMailbox($storeDN);

2002-08-21 Thread Stum, Matthew J.
Title: RE: Occasional error with $ADobject->CreateMailbox($storeDN); I haven't gotten into auditing yet, no.  And I haven't tried the sleep solution because 1) it makes my skin crawl, and 2) the required time delay is usually on the order of minutes, not seconds, and users are expecting a f

RE: Occasional error with $ADobject->CreateMailbox($storeDN);

2002-08-21 Thread Steven Manross
I would tend to agree with your replication assumption, or some other "NT isn't updating something quick enough" answer, especially if it's only on newly created objects (I have a similar problem with Exchange 5.5 - where creating a scheduled task to re-run the mailbox creation 10 minutes later al

Re: problem connecting to SQL server 2000

2002-08-21 Thread Wiechel, Benjamin
I use the following code: # # Database/ODBC declarations and options # $db_user = "iusr_ncdb"; $db_pass = ""; $dsn_name= 'dbi:ODBC:NCDB'; $dbh = DBI->connect($dsn_name, $db_user, $db_pass, { PrintError => 0, AutoCommit => 1 }); if(!define

RE: problem connecting to SQL server 2000

2002-08-21 Thread John.F.Kennedy
Thanks I thought it was something like that John Kennedy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Jeff Urlwin Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 11:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED

Occasional error with $ADobject->CreateMailbox($storeDN);

2002-08-21 Thread Stum, Matthew J.
I've got about 27,000 Exchange mailboxes and 49,000 total users with a 10,000 user turn-over every year. Needless to say I've written some Perl modules to automate the management of AD, Exchange, IIS, SQL, etc. And it all works pretty slick 99% of the time... However recently I've noticed e

RE: problem connecting to SQL server 2000

2002-08-21 Thread Carlos Guillen
Here's more or less how I've been doing it... $DSN='DSN=MyDefinedOdbc;UID=MyLogin;PWD=MyPassword'; if(!($db = DBI->connect("dbi:ODBC:$DSN"))) { print "Unable to connect to $DSN\n"; exit; } -Original Message- From: John.F.Kennedy [mailto:[EMAIL PRO

problem connecting to SQL server 2000

2002-08-21 Thread John.F.Kennedy
I am having a problem connecting to SQL server 2000 using DBI. Below are my code and the error message I get could some point me in the right direction. sub Connect_To_DataBase { my ($continue,$dsn); $continue = $TRUE; Create_Log("null","Attempting to connect to My Database");

Re: How do I divide in PERL?

2002-08-21 Thread Dougal Campbell
On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, Michael C. Podlesny wrote: > What is the proper syntax to for division in PERL? > > I wrote: > > $a = $b/$c*100; > > This doesn't work. Does anyone know why? Make sure that $b and $c are being treated as numeric, not strings. You can force them numeric by subtracting zero,

commas and Win32::OLE

2002-08-21 Thread Edgington, Jeff
I have a script that will move an object from one container to another... works fine so long as there isn't a comma in the objects distinguished name... there something different that I need to do when using Win32::OLE for this case? For example... This would move distinguishedName CN=UMR Co

Re: How do I divide in PERL?

2002-08-21 Thread Shawn Boyle
I'm going to take a guess. I think you want this: $a = $b/($c*100); Original message >Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 23:53:43 -0400 >From: "Michael C. Podlesny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: How do I divide in PERL? >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], perl-win32-admin- [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTEC