npscripts.com

[Michael Pratt]

I know if I had problems with a script and got a blank screen I put a -w in
front of #!/usr/bin/perl -w.

Here is some other switches here.

http://www.perl.com/doc/manual/html/pod/perlrun.html

Mike

----- Original Message ----- 

From: "Jonathan Hutchins" <hutchins at tarcanfel.org>
To: <kclug at kclug.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2004 2:02 PM
Subject: npscripts.com

> Is anybody familiar with Brandon Stewart's perl scripts from
npscripts.com?
>
> I inhereted a copy of his "subscriber" script for maintaining a one-way
> mailing list, and on the basis of the features offered by his "subscriber
> pro" version persuaded my boss to pay $100 for the latter.
>
> We seem to be having a lot of trouble running the scripts though, and they
> seem to have some pretty basic errors in them.  Generally, they tend to
> return a blank page and your not sure what they have or haven't done.
>
> Part of the problem is that we do not have "root" access on the webserver
> where they run - we just have a regular user account, and Apache runs the
> scripts as "nobody", so we get interesting permission problems.
>
> If you've had any experience with the above, have any advice about this
stuff,
> or have a good mailing list script to recommend, I'd be happy to hear
about
> it.
>
> Jonathan