Webmaster Forum / Perl / Modules / March 2004

I need to get some basic user info from WIN32,unix,.. platforms (thing like
user name, user email, machine name,
.. ) is there a module in CPAN that I use
Thanks,

Does anyone know of a howto or tutorial on creating RPMs from regular tarballs
of perl modules?
Thanks,
Gerald

I have written an application on our development box that uses the
LWP::UserAgent, Crypy::SSLeay, etc. classes to send data using the
https protocol and that works fine.
When I run the same application on our live box, I get an error saying

I'm wondering why I'm not seeing the error messages from Net::FTP...  I try
to run the program and I get the error:
Couldn't rename request ftpapd.0329.6373.2:
But the code is:

Today new on CPAN: Term::ReadLine::Zoid
ABOUT
This package provides a set of modules that form an interactive input
buffer written in plain perl with minimal dependencies. It features

Note: this is sort of a continuation of the thread,
   Proposal: new module, Array::Each?
http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=Pine.A41.4.58.0312091240460.6362%40ginge
r.libs.uga.edu
I've uploaded version 0.02 of Array::Each to CPAN,

Hi folks. I'm working on my first-ever perl module, and would like some
feedback. Eventually, I want to make it high-enough quality to submit to
CPAN without being ashamed of myself. I figured I'd try here first.
Although there's several well-known CPAN modules for getting weather ...

The following code was used to write the public key & private key into files:
use Crypt::RSA;
$rsa = new Crypt::RSA;
( $public, $private ) = $rsa->keygen( Size => 1024 );

i'd like to write a PORTABLE perl script which listens to a socket during 3
seconds, and gives up after theses 3 seconds. given that i want a
portable code, i can't use fork, pipe, or system V signals.
problem 1 : if i listen the socket using $line = <$socket>, it will

i am working on a perl project for server management.i would like to know
how to get the current running processes(task maanger) via my program and
also the application errors have to be handled.help me

I'm trying to create a perl script that will read in a text file and send
out emails.
I want to have both html and plain text to send, but I don't want to have
the message in the perl script. I'd like to be able to use templates, so

   I have created a module that is a Perl binding to the drmaa spec,
http://www.drmaa.org.  The drmaa spec is to abstract an API for submitting
jobs to different supporting job schedulers (so a method to distribute jobs
over a network).  The DRMAA provides a framework for job ...

Hi, I'm about to release the module
 Image::Pbm - Load, create, manipulate and save pbm image files.
This module implements pbm (portable bitmap) specific load() and
save() methods for the Image::Base interface (using Image::Xbm

Sorry, perhaps this question was already posted but it is not easy to
make the best choice between all reponses.
I installed ActivePerl and I would like to access to a remote
SQLServer database.

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