Orpheus — Sat, 05 Feb 2000 15:39:00 +0000

crisis over

minton — Sat, 05 Feb 2000 14:48:00 +0000

Great! I finally got the script working apart from one thing which I will be able to work out on my own. Thanks alot!!

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Orpheus — Fri, 04 Feb 2000 23:16:00 +0000

thats the line

change $passfile = "

to $passfile = "";

Justin S — Fri, 04 Feb 2000 22:43:00 +0000

I was looking over the file, and the only thing I could see which would cause any confusion is:

code:

$passfile = "
[/code]

??? I'm probably totally off but...

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Justin S — Fri, 04 Feb 2000 22:40:00 +0000

Just a note to Japhy: Boardzilla is on the brink of dying, and I (we) were wondering if you would mind coming back again

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minton — Fri, 04 Feb 2000 18:28:00 +0000

Ok, if anyone wants to know the url to the file (txt) is http://thomasminton.virtualave.net/config.txt

If anyone can see any errors I would be grateful.

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japhy — Fri, 04 Feb 2000 13:07:00 +0000

One way to help Perl tell you where an error is, is to use the Carp.pm module. Using the carp() and croak() functions will make it report the first line of code that set of the chain of function calls leading to a warning or an error message. It's standard distribution.

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Orpheus — Fri, 04 Feb 2000 06:10:00 +0000

Justin: your right about that. Perl could say "error on line 3483" and it would be on line 5. It's terribly annoying.

As for the 500 server error I can't think of anything else to say. It might help if you gave a URL to the cgi file renamed to .txt

japhy — Thu, 03 Feb 2000 22:09:00 +0000

Regarding the difficulty of figuring out what line an error occurs on... Perl "shrinks" a multi-line expression to one line when it compiles your program. So doing: