aks@hub.ucsb.edu (Alan Stebbens) (01/11/91)
First some Perl info for "named" administrators (or those who would like
to be):
I have some Perl scripts available which create all the necessary
configuration files for a third-level subdomain (eg: DEPT.SCHOOL.EDU)
from a master file, which is easily maintained. The files are:
/etc/hosts, /etc/named.boot, /etc/named.cache, /etc/named.DEPThosts, and
/etc/named.DEPThosts.rev. The whole process is driven by "make", which,
of course, automatically detects changes in the configuration, generates
the new files (using Perl scripts), installs them, and then (re)starts
"named". The scripts are available via anonymous FTP at hub.ucsb.edu in
"/pub/named.conf.tar.Z". Send an email request for FTP-impaired sites.
Oh yeah: I'm working on a general second-level domain (e.g.: SCHOOL.EDU,
or COMPANY.COM) configration suite, but it is not quite ready for
distribution.
Second: a note to the recent complainer:
Hey, please stop whining about the content of the Perl-users mailing
list. If you don't like it, please stop reading it. In less kind words,
please go away.
More constructively, if you would like to see a mailing list of a
different function -- start your own. Create your own mailing list; you
can even feed "perl-users" into it, weeding out the "evil" articles with
which your find such distaste. If your "ideas" are valid, you will
develop a readership; if not, well, at least you put the effort into
trying.
But, please, don't complain about the current list contents: I like it
just the way it is, and, apparently, so does almost everyone else who
reads it; your attempt to justify your whinings by claiming the name is
semantically inappropriate is ludicrous. There is a lot of value in
this list, much more than the others to which I subscribe (quite a lot).
If you don't like the relative "signal-to-noise" ratio (a subjective
measure anyway), there are many things you can do to improve it, rather
than complain -- write *informative* articles; write a Perl script to
throw away articles you don't want to read, based on your own ideas of
acceptability (if you make it generally heuristic, it would be a pretty
neat Perl script).
I apologize to everyone else for bringing this up publicly and reducing
the signal-to-noise ratio :^}; I'm just tired of relative newcomers to a
mailing list butting in with complaints, without ever contributing
anything worthwhile.
Alan Stebbens <aks@hub.ucsb.edu> (805) 893-3221
Center for Computational Sciences and Engineering (CCSE)
University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)
3111 Engineering I, Santa Barbara, CA 93106
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print join('',reverse grep(s/([JAPH])/$1/||/./,split(//,
'rekcaHlrePrehtonAtsuJtoN')))."\n";
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