Webmaster Forum / Perl / General Perl Topics / August 2008

I am writing this one last post because I feel this group as truly
gotten to the point that one cannot express their views without certain
people, who feel they are above everyone else here changing what you say
or down right lying in order to bury any argument against something ...

I'm trying to write a setuid script and can't make it happen. I've
trimmed it down to the very simple example below trying to have a
logger.pl script add a message to a log file. This is my Bash
transcript with all the pertinent details.

I am feeling somewhat uneasy posting my query because quite likely it
is some other bug which is causing my code to fail and it is only a
matter of time before I discover it; but I have already spent far too
much time debugging it. So I might as well try to cover some

I'm writing a script to parse the contents of /proc/loadavg file. And the
file is like this:
0.22 0.11 0.03 1/92 2653
And I hope my script output is like this:

I am using a free script from thesitewizard.com to sendmail a feedback form.
Everything was working great but I need more input fields on the form.  The
HTML was no problem but I busted the script. (please see below my
modifications)

I'm trying to get Net::SSH::Perl installed.  I did install
Math::BigInt::GMP, Math::GMP, Math::Pari, and various other modules
without problem.
But when I run "perl -MCPAN -e 'install Net::SSH::Perl'" the whole

Background:
I have task of calculating dependencies of project(s) of a scenario.
Dependency calculation is done using an external command. Since this
dependency calculation time depends on how big is the project is, it

I am learning how to use Perl. When I was first time using VBA, I
could use "F8" to track how all the variables change each by each and
step by step so that I can understand how the coding flows. Is there
any method to do so (or similar) in Perl? Many thanks!

I have a problem with the next recursive subroutine used in a mailing
script:
#-----------------------
# sub built_tolist

I have an object representing a player:
sub new {
       my $package     = shift;
       my $self = {

Kindly consider this code which illustrates my question:
#!/usr/bin/perl
   use strict;
   my $column_ref = [

I have the following output  which I want to convert into excel...Any
pointers how to achieve it via Spreadsheet::WriteExcel;
I am a beginer so pardon my lack of knowledge in perl.
lpar_name       minmem  desmem  maxmem  minpr   despr   maxpr

Hello, I've collected huge perl scripts collection of any kinds : work
with text files, database, GUI etc. You can download it here
http://freactor.com/get.php?file=perl+scripts

    i am new to perl so i uat wanted some help.
i wanted the followinf loop to be repeated for every 30 seconds.
$send_data = strftime( "::DATA::123456789101112,%d.%m.%Y,%H:%M:%S,
13.0076367,77.5489267,0,933.4,AirTel,31,0 \n", gmtime);

We have a script that is supposed to run continuously and never to
die or exit. And it generally does that, except that sometimes it does
not and exits mysteriously.
We capture its stdout and stderr and there is "nothing abnormal".