Webmaster Forum / Perl / Modules / January 2006

Before putting it on CPAN, I'd like some advice on a module that
pairs league members for roundrobin tournaments. I'm wondering
about the name and also about the API, as people say, eg Adam
Kennedy and Sam Tregar, that getting the API right at the start

I'm written a new module called ASNMTAP that I'm planning to put on
CPAN.
Application, System, Network en Monitoring Tool (ASNMTAP)
Actual host and service checks are performed by separate plugins which

I should use NTRegOpenKeyEx to read a registry key.
I got some example like:
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require 'NT.ph';

I seem to have a recurring problem installing Crypt::SSLeay on my Red
Hat Enterprise 4 systems.  Whether I install in manually by downloading
and installing the module or grabbing it through CPAN, I always get the
following error:

In the README I see the following:
"You can define callback routines which will be called whenever a
connection is established, is cut off, new data comes in or a request
finishes. The subroutines can be global for all requests you

Currently I am writing a mathematic module which has multiplications
and divisions of very small and big numbers. I use log() and exp() to
handle those problem, but it makes the codes less understandable and
intitutive.

Hi --
I've installed Lingua::ISpell using the ppm from ActivePerl.
I have ISpell.pm sitting on my machine in the F:\perl\site\lib\lingua
directory.

Hi I have a problem.
I use LWP::Parallel::Useragent to fetch prices to my Meta Search
Engine.
It usually works great but now i have a problem.

being veery new to perl, I wonder where can I find the Configure
options, particulary for -Dextras?
What extras are available?
This is for perl-5.8.7

I'm looking for namespace and package name suggestions for a (yes,
another) form processing module.
Its job it to move data between a store and input/output forms,
validating along the way.  It doesn't generate any HTML, although I use

I'm having trouble getting the BerkeleyDB perl plug-in (0.27) to work
in a specific case.
Here is my configuration: Fedora Core 4 on an HP OmniBook XE3 laptop.
The Berkeley database (v4.4.16) is sucessfully installed and accessible

When I try to run 'make' on PDF-Template-0.22 I get an error which I do
not have any idea what it means or how to debug the perl module.  I am
compiling using Perl Version 5.6 and the OS is RH 7.3 Kernel Version
2.4.   The error message is below and any help or suggestions is

  My apologies if this is an old topic, but I did a lot of searching
first and couldn't quite find the best answer.  Here is my problem
(very briefly):
 I want to download a fairly large amount of data from a webpage

I am getting a compile error (below) while trying to build
GDTextUtil-0.86 on AIX 5.3, Perl v5.8.7.  The weird thing is that 0.85
builds just fine.  When I try to install via CPAN it just fails without
any reason at all.  :(

   I have a perl script that runs continuously and launches other Perl
scripts. I'm using Proc::Simple to do this. I want to check and see if
the process (script) is already running, and if not, start it. I do
this by using the poll method. However, poll always returns 1, as if