Mac Forum / Programming / Perl / May 2004

(sorry if this is a repost, I sent it before
confirming my subscription)
I'm having a memory problem with Perl in Panther that
I didn't have in Jaguar.  When I try to read a large

I'm trying to install GD 2.0.23 with Panther. I'm aware that people
have problems but none of the reports appear to be like mine. I've
managed to install GD2 libraries from the source without problem and
have JPEG, FreeType2, etc. support. I installed all of the libraries

Could we please keep this mailing list about issues that are directly
related to both Mac OS X and perl?  It's becoming a busy mailing list, and I
don't have the time to keep up with all these things that are general perl
issues, or general Mac OS X issues.

How can catch an "JPEG library reports unrecoverable error: Not a JPEG
file..."My script die and instead, i would continue.Pratically i need of a
"check" but i am not able to check this type of error!
Can someone help me?

Okay, I seem to have forgotten how to use CPAN. Where are the detailed
instructions?
(perldoc cpan only gets me a page.)
And while I'm making noise,

I'm using the Spreadsheet::ParseExcel::Simple module to extract data  
from some Excel files. Everything is running nicely, but I'm getting a  
warning from the module when I read one of the Excel files, but not  
with all of them. I haven't had the time to find out the exact cause, ...

I have an account on my box that has Japanese set as
the default language and I noticed that certain files
get automagically renamed into Japanese (e.g. various
Apple programs in /Applications). I also noticed that

Decided to teach myself Perl and the got  "Sam's Teach Yourself Perl in
24 hrs" (book & CD ) from the local library.

Taking Jerry's recommendation, I downloaded DejaVu and ran it last
night.  It started about 10pm and at 12:30pm it was still running and I
went to bed, (my energy savings preferences were set to dvd playback).  
I couldn't see any progress bar, although it said it had one. When I

My apache log files show that I'm getting two or more of those long url
attacks every day, and access_log grows to over 4Mb in just a week, in
spite of the fact that there are less than ten valid accesses in any
particular day. So, I'm going to write a daily script to

I just installed 10.3 and am trying to get a cron job to fire off a
perl script which will send an email saying the cron job was completed.
crontab listing
* * * * * /Users/blah/Library/Scripts/test.pl

this is a beginner cookie question:
I am able to retrieve a cookie even after it is supposed to
expire. If this is how it's supposed to be, how can I tell
whether the cookie is expired?

I try to back up my system once a week.  I have a firewire disk drive
that I use for this purpose.  I have been using the Lacie software that
came with it.  Before Panther, I used to be able just to plug it in and
run it under my own id.  Now I need to log in as root to run it. ...

I'm sure I've seen a thread on this, but a casual search didn't turn it
up. (I'm always looking in the wrong places.)
When I'm logged in as a user, I can set the appropriate environmen
variables, but when a daemon is running, where is it going to get them?