Webmaster Forum / Perl / Modules / November 2004

I am using the perl module Net::Pcap in a monitoring application. It
is working perfectly; however, there's one small detail I can't figure
out... I'd like the capture to stop every so often and reload a filter
from a file.

Hi to all
I have a problem.
When I make thumbnails with the code below it re-sizes images
to scale, the only problem is, some of the images are less than

Just wondering about appropriate PAN usage. I have a set of modules I'm
working on on an almost daily basis. They are alpha's currently (the
port from the working MySQL::Backup to DBA::Backup &
DBA::Backup::mysql). I talked about them at our local Perl mongers

I am trying to send form data to an email address through a perl
script.  I am getting the error message "Can't loacate loadable object
for Module Socket in @INC (@INC contains: sys:\perl\lib.)........" and
it errors out there.  I am using Novell Netware 6 Servers.  Has anyone

I noticed that there are [at least] two sets of modules for generating PDF
files directly from Perl.  Now, I know absolutely *ZERO* about PDF [other
than that I need to be able to generate it for a project..:o)].  Two
things:

Im running a VPS server with root access on linux redhat 9.
Ive recently installed image magich through using apt-get [apt-get
install ImageMagick].
The installation seems fine, but when I try to reach it in my code

I'm attempting to install the perl Tk module via CPAN and
during the 'make test' phase I get several error meesages
such as this:
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server

I'm trying to install some module using the install command in CPAN.
The module requires some external .h file which I just added to a new
directory (/usr/local2/include). However I can't find any
documentation on how to get the make program to look in this directory

Bonjour à tous
j'ai créér 2 modules additionnels à Graph.pm pour permettre d'afficher
des graphs boursier, comment les distribuer sur le net ?
voici la page http://www.bouard.org/graph_pm.html qui explique les

Can anyone just tell me how to invoke a PERL debugger in graphical
mode? Do I have to install any new softwares for that? and can't it be
done without adding/installing any additional software?
Thanks in advance

Is there any point of using autoloader/selfloader kind of modules under
mod_perl?
I have 300kb of OOP style source code and there is no need for loading all
class (package)

I have a problem with one line of code here:
$oldcount = $sth->fetchrow_array() or die("Error Number:  60");
The problem is that when the SQL, which just gets a one column one row value
has a value of 0 (zero) die is called - even though zero is a correct and

A problem with PDL printing:
I have two matrices, and I multiply and print them, say, in the
following way:
  my $lmat = matmult ($s, transpose($v));

I have a line of code as
$myvar = $link -> getdata()-> getDir()
I could not understand the use of two "->"
I could not figure out how it works. Forget about the function

I did a search in the FAQ  and in the mailing list under the obvious keywords,
and still came up with nothing, so now I ask here.
Following the instructions in in libwww-perl5.801\README, I
successfully installed all the prerequisite modules: except that the