Ask MetaFilter posts tagged with perl

Need a replacement for formmail.pl

the matching mole — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 08:02:41 -0800

What is a proven contemporary replacement for formmail.pl? I am about to drag some websites created in 1997 into 2008. These websites use formmail.pl to capture information from input forms and email it off to someone.

After I strip all of the Claris Homepage tags out of the HTML (!), I'll need something to capture the information, write it to a file, and periodically email that file. The host computer is an Intel Xserve managed by me, and is running OS X Server 10.5.3, so I have Apache, Perl, MySQL, and PHP at my disposal. The pages are simple HTML, but can be converted to PHP if necessary.

OSS is preferred, but I will pay for a solution. I'm mostly an interface/admin guy, so writing my own Perl script just ain't gonna happen. I'm looking for a plug, tweak, and play solution.

Any recommendations?

Live AIS data is a web browser

kaozity — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 10:55:58 -0800

Hi, Another oddball question... I have a live data stream of AIS data and I would like to take the data and ultimately display it on a world map through a web browser. The problem is that I have no clue as to how I would display live updated information on a map. I would like the map to update as the stream of data is coming in. This might be an ambitious project for someone who is weak on web programming, but i figured it would be worth looking into.

Computer languages considered in linguistic contexts?

AmbroseChapel — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 22:43:42 -0800

Computer languages considered in linguistic contexts? I've volunteered to give a talk about computer languages, for an audience which is primarily interested in linguistics, not computers.

One thing I'm definitely going to be talking about is Perl, which is unusual among computer languages in that, for instance, it has "pronouns". For more detail, see Larry Wall's "Natural Language Principles In Perl". Wall deliberately went against the grain of language construction, it seems to me, in that he didn't aim for perfection or concision, whereas most language creators would seem to be aiming for something more like a Philosophical Language.

Another example of a correlation -- I read in Pinker's "The Language Instinct" that English only has one first-person plural, "we", but other languages have more than one, which distinguish between "only you and I", "you and I and some other people", "some other people and I but not you" etc. Could that be considered analogous to "strong typing" in a computer language, where you can't have a variable be a number at one point, then a text string at another point?

I'm just looking for any interesting resources, links, opinions, ideas on the subject.

It's not an academic audience, and I don't have to rise to the standard of a formal lecture, just to be interesting. And I know more about the computer side than the linguistics side, so go easy on me if you're a linguist.

Can I write to a div using Perl, or otherwise solve my form submission problem?

unsigned — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:11:10 -0800

Can I write to a div using Perl, or otherwise solve my form submission problem? I have a Perl/CGI form mailer script that I didn't write and shouldn't edit too much, but can somewhat.

It's currently set up so that I can define the thank you page and error page within the Perl file. I don't want it to redirect to those pages however. I want to display the messages on the page the form is on instead, without reloading if possible. I played around with redirecting to the same page but appending a parameter in the URL. Then using JS to show a div if that var was set. But I'm realizing I need to display some of the items submitted from the form and I don't know how to keep those values since the page is being refreshed.

I don't know Perl so I don't know if there is a better way to do this, but can I do something like write to a div with Perl? Other ideas?

need a library for text classification

chexov — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 16:17:29 -0800

I need to be able to automatically identify language (English, Japaneese, Russian, etc ... ) in which a particular blog-post has been written. (lang attribute might or might not be available). Few years ago I came across a library for RSS feeds that was doing roughly what I need - can not find it anymore though.

Make Apache recognize Perl!

kaozity — Wed, 28 May 2008 05:49:15 -0800

How can I get my web server to interpret perl I am playing around with perl for the first time in my life. I am using a fedora core 8 machine. It seems to ave all the essentials installed already (apache, php, mySQL, and perl). However, I make a file called perl.pl and it does not seem to translate correctly. Here is what is in the file:

#!/usr/bin/perl

print "Content-type: text/html \n\n"; #HTTP HEADER

# DEFINE SOME SCALAR VARIABLES
$number = "5";
$exponent = "2 ** 8";
$string = "Hello, PERL!";
$stringpart_1 = "Hello, ";
$stringpart_2 = "PERL!";
$linebreak = "
"; #HTML LINEBREAK TAG

# PRINT THEM TO THE BROWSER
print $number;
print $linebreak;
print $exponent;
print $linebreak;
print $string.$linebreak;
print $stringpart_1.$stringpart_2;

When you go the the browser, you see the following
http://[ip address]/perl/perl.pl

As you can see, you prints out exactly what I type. Am I doing anything wrong? Am I suppose to enable a perl service or change a configuration file?

Redirecting users by IP in Apache

Oktober — Mon, 12 May 2008 13:16:56 -0800

How do I redirect incoming website visitors to an external site by IP address? I'm the general sysadmin here and don't do much web stuff other than simple content updating, but I think I'm on the right track with adding this bit of mod_rewrite code to the end of the httpd.conf file...

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^12\.345\.678\.9$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/index.php$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://test.foo.com/$1 [R]

Any ideas why this isn't working?

(apache 1.3.33 on OS X)

Shell scripting or something better?

Blazecock Pileon — Fri, 09 May 2008 14:19:40 -0800

Faster techniques for grabbing lines of a file and doing text manipulation and arithmetic via shell (or other) scripting? 1. Are there faster ways to grab lines of a text file?

Currently I use while read line and sed -n #p filename in bash and csh scripts to grab lines of a file I'm interested in. This seems slow. Are there better (faster) ways to get the line of a file, or to iterate through specified ranges of lines in a file?

2. Are there faster ways than awk to grab values in a line?

Let's say I have the tab-delimited line:

abc 123 345 0.52

What I'd like to do is get the second and third values, or the fourth value, as quickly as possible. Is there a better way than awk? Will a perl or other interpreted language script run faster than a shell script for scraping values from a text file?

3. Arithmetic with bash?

I've been doing $((${value1}+${value2})) for integer arithmetic and calc ${value1} / ${value2} for floating point arithmetic within bash. Will I gain a performance benefit from switching over my code from bash to another shell script language, or to another interpreted language entirely?

Thanks for any and all tips and tricks.

What shopping cart software should I set up?

amtho — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 20:04:15 -0800

Best starting point for e-commerce / shopping cart software? I'm a competent Perl programmer with background in several other languages, who wants to create a decidedly minimalist-looking web site shopping cart for a client. I expect to hack Perl or PHP code, but would like to hack things that are designed to be hacked. Anyone tried CRE Loaded? Other recommendations? Other places to ask? The old system, heavily modified from an open-source Perl code base, probably should go; I'm pretty confident I can figure out PHP enough to customize something that isn't actively getting in my way (have modified WordPress successfully) -- but what code to start from?

I'm willing to pay a little. I want to install it on my own server space. I'm very picky about design and usability, so I'll want to change the front end of anything (that I've seen available) substantially. And oh, I'll probably want the back end to integrate with our existing payment handling system (Mal's, in case anyone knows/cares), but I can write that code myself if needed.

Specific changes I'd want:
- ability for people to purchase without having to "create an account";
- will keep track of shopping cart contents even if cookies not enabled (i.e., can keep cart ID in URLs if no cookies available)
- URL's that are sensible words instead of automatically-assigned numbers (maybe called "search engine friendly"?)
- ability to completely customize the layout of the home page and other pages, including product listings - this includes HTML, not just changes to CSS.

I've read some similar questions in AskMe, and this one is almost exactly me, though it's from 2006. I'm interested in CubeCart and SquirrelCart, which it recommends, but one option that I'd particularly looked at some years ago is a version of OSCommerce called CRE Loaded -- anyone know that one?

If there's a good resource out there in the world, book or web site, that will give a good survey of available software with my particular concerns in mind, or if there's a better forum you know of for this kind of question, I'd love to hear about it.

How should I convert a Thunderbird inbox into text files?

eisenkr — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 11:57:48 -0800

What's the best way to export all of the emails in a Thunderbird inbox to text files, one text file per email? I'm planning on doing some linguistic analysis of emails and need to take a Thunderbird inbox and convert it into text files before I get to work. Google searches have revealed many mbox (which I think Thunderbird uses) parsers of, I am sure, varying quality. I'd love to skip the endless trial and error stage and start with the perfect tool. What's the best way to convert a Thunderbird inbox to text files?

ps - I'm comfortable using Perl and Python if you guys think a scripting solution is best.

Database application freelancer seeking programming language advice

mrbloo — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 02:34:51 -0800

I'm planning on starting a database freelancing business. I understand a lot of people prefer Microsoft Access or FileMaker. With the current evolving trend of applications going on the web and add to that my somewhat good experience with PHP, HTML, Javascript and CSS I'm seeking a cross platform efficient application environment. This is why I believe Access and FileMaker are not an option, I'm also more experienced with high level languages than I am with Access or FileMaker. I am currently looking into alternatives. I have been looking at different frameworks and toolkits. These are generally what I have come up with;

- PHP-GTK (Required GTK+ and PHP)
- Python (With wxPython/pyGTK)
- Perl (Perl/Tk)

All those options and similar and require a toolkit and or an interpreter to be installed on the system to work. I'm looking for a cleaner (and possibly compiled or packaged) applications. So I came across other tools such as;

- Mozilla Gecko (XULRunner)
- Adobe Air

Those seem like the most viable options, however, it would be best if the code was compiled, since each of these applications require a lot of virtual memory. Lastly, I came across boo and mono. I like the idea a lot, however there is still the issue of writing and compiling boo code. I only got introduced to boo yesterday.

I'm very reluctant about getting into Java, C, C++, or C# simply because of the complexity of it compared to the languages above. However, if you have another opinion please feel free to share. I'm open to ideas and criticism.

I'm confused as to what would be my best option here for a cross platform programming language and framework/toolkit (GUI) for creating portable database (and possible Point of Sale) applications for my town's local small businesses. What would you recommend?

Is writing a bad C++ program better than writing it in Perl?

omair — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:13:27 -0800

Does compiled vs. interpreted code make a difference if the structure of the algorithm is the same (ie, ugly and slow)? Should I take the extra effort of writing a small program in C++ or just do it in Perl...? I need to write a script that will search for a pattern of characters (let's say 5 letters, followed by a dash, followed by 3 letters -- or something like that) in EVERY file (of certain types) on the computer.

Whether I write it in Perl or in C++, it would look the same, I think.

I would create a list of all the applicable files on the computer and loop through them one by one. Then, for each file, I would get each line and search it for my pattern. O(n^2), right?

This seems to be pretty easy to do in Perl, which I have used a lot, but more of a headache to getting it working in C++. However, the only reason I am leaning towards C++ is because this script has to run on at least 100 machines...so something that is faster would be better.

But if the algorithm is fundamentally the same for both, does it make a difference? Should I just do it in Perl? What about things like memory management and the computer resources being all used up making the machine unusable while the program/script is running? (i.e., these other things besides the actual running time of the program?)

Thank you for your insight into this.

How can I run a web server on OS X without admin access?

AmbroseChapel — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:31:05 -0800

How can I run a web server on OS X without admin access? You'll just have to trust me on the reasons, but I want to to run a fully-functioning web server (or at least, one which can do dynamic pages in Perl or PHP) on OS X (Leopard) machines, without having the administrator password.

Having it on a USB stick seems the most likely approach -- a web server is an application after all, and I won't be able to install new applications without the admin password, but I will be able to run an application from a stick.

This guy says he's done it, but annoyingly, not how, and hasn't made the details available: http://www.developmentseed.org/blog/2007/aug/03/getting-web-server-run-usb-drive, and this guy says he's got a beta version with limited functionality but wants me to pay for it sight unseen: http://www.server2go-web.de/features/mac.html.

I reckon I'm probably clueful enough to attempt my own tweaks to MAMPP given a few starting hints. Would it be incredibly difficult?

Any other solutions or suggestions gratefully received of course.

Create a simple database website (and gather the data)

mtstover — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 15:46:16 -0800

I'm undertaking a personal web development and database building project, but I don't do web development or database building. Please help me assess the best options to have someone else do the work for me. I think the stuff I want is fairly easy, but please tell me what you think. I want to do a set of three things (in priority order):

1. Have a simple form where users will input information and that will go into a database. Input screens will be 2-3 pages total, and I want to easily play with the forms to test conversion, throughput, etc. A+ answers will let me easily do split A/B testing on the front end.

2. Have a searchable database of contacts, all with the same set of data. Basically contact information, a few links, and some commentary.

3. Have someone scrape a whole bunch of different websites to assemble the initial contact database. (Perl scripting work here probably?)

4. Have a contact entry form that will insert data into the contact database.

5. All of this should be indexible / crawled by google, and of course have the ability to insert ads.

6. Have a non-ugly design.

7. (Optional, at outset) have user ability to comment and "rate" these contacts.

8. (Optional, at outset) create mashup of contact information and google maps.

How best to build this? Hire a rent-a-coder, college student, etc? (If so, how do I go about finding the right person?) Use an off the shelf product and play with it myself? How much should something like this cost? (Would love to hire a Mefite - so bids accepted on Mefimail!) What decisions should I make now that will give me somthing extensible? What are the main technologies that I should look out for? I'm sure many other questions here that I've not thought of -- so fire away! Thanks in advance hive mind!

Installing perl in a user folder

Ritchie — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:37:41 -0800

Does anyone have any experience with or tips on installing Perl without root privileges? The version of AIX I use at work has an old version of Perl (5.005) that is driving me nuts. Many of the 'core' modules are missing from the install. Occasionally I spend an evening or weekend putting together a perl script at home, only to find it won't run at work.

Our sysadmin doesn't have a lot of experience with Perl, and is a bit wary of installing a new version, particularly when a lot of overnight batch processing scripts are written in Perl, and he doesn't want to take the chance that something might break as a result of an upgrade (and I can't say I blame him).

I'm going to try installing Perl 5.8.8 at work in my own user folder. I've some experience installing Perl on my home system, but never without superuser privileges. Are there any things to be aware of, any 'gotchas', any tips that will make it easier, any things you wish you'd known before doing it? Is there any chance I could royally screw things up, even without being superuser?

Looking for non-WYSIWYG web-based file editor app

scottandrew — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 18:47:13 -0800

Old-school, non-WYSIWYG web-based file editor apps. Do they still exist? My friend used to pay her webmaster to make updates to her site. Now she wants to make the updates herself. She knows very basic HTML, and doesn't really grasp FTP. She's used to logging into a website and editing in a textarea, not things like Dreamweaver/HomeSite/Nvu etc.

I'm looking for a dead simple editor, preferably written in PHP or Perl, that we can install on her host account that will let her edit pages. As I recall, these web editors were popular pre-2000, usually a CGI that came as part of a hosting package.

Wordpress, Drupal, et al are not an option since she has no one to assist her with migration. Her existing site is all flat files, about ten pages total. She simply wants to edit these files as needed.

I spent quite a bit of time on Freshmeat and Google, but haven't found anything. Suggestions from the hive mind?

Webumake Nomakeweb...Anymore.

mic stand — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 10:49:58 -0800

My company is using a product called "Webumake" and the internal WYSIWYG editor does not work in IE7, Firefox, IE6 on the Mac... The vendor no longer supports the product and we are either:

1) looking for a current fix
2) looking for someone to fix the script (Perl)
3) moving to a new platform and trying to re-map the urls and import (alot) of content

If anyone has an experience with this product have leads/referrals on fixing the script, your input/help is appreciated.

Kindly,

mic stand

Regex Alms for the Perl-less?

ChasFile — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 02:12:28 -0800

Help me composite some regex. (That phrasing makes this question sound way less nerdy than it is) Here's a regex to find some stuff between square brackets:
/\[[^\]]+\]/

Here's one that finds something like Alt: or alt. or Alternative: or alternate or Alternate: or Alternative or Alt.: or you get the idea [note it ends with \s+; it is important for my application that the "Alt___ " I'm testing for has white space at the end, and that I test for it. In the final answer we can test for that word boundary any way we like, we just need to make sure that we do.]:
/(A|a)lt(\.|ernat(e|ive))?:?\s+/

So what I need is a regular expression for "stuff between square brackets where the first thing inside the brackets will NOT match the second regex." Or "Stuff inside square brackets that begins with anything BUT alt or Alt. or Alternate or alternative: or alt.: or etc. etc.

I feel like this should be easy, but I never bothered to totally and completely grok regex, and obviously I'm hurting now because of it. I'd very much appreciate any help anyone could give, and in exchange you'll get co-author credit for the amazing piece of software that this thing will ultimately be a part of! ;-)

Apache/GrepFilter: Number Four Son, He Never Calls

rokusan — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 08:17:23 -0800

GrepFilter: How to pull the last 10 authusers from an Apache log file, without all the noise? This is why I flunked out of compsci.

I made a little extranet web thingie for my world-scattered family to use to stay in touch and so on. It works great, technically, but of course it's a pain always nagging everyone to use it. So I'd like to use the power of passive-aggressive love, by just showing the last time each user has logged in on the home page. Then my family can all guilt each other into being more regular.

Everyone's an htaccess user, so the info is right there in the apache logs. But I'm out of my depth here. I'm looking for a quickie grep/shellscript/perl way to pull the last ten unique authusers (htusers) from a standard apache logfile, with dates.

My regular old apache log looks like this:

in.log
====
74.53.68.133 - no1son [01/Nov/2007:01:13:15 -0400] "GET /page.htm HTTP/1.1" 200 - "referrer stuff"
74.53.68.133 - no1son [01/Nov/2007:01:13:31 -0400] "GET /page1.htm HTTP/1.1" 200 - "referrer stuff"
64.13.232.151 - no2son [02/Nov/2007:12:13:01 -0400] "GET /page.htm HTTP/1.1" 200 - "referrer stuff"
68.178.232.99 - no2son [02/Nov/2007:12:13:11 -0400] "GET /page3.htm HTTP/1.1" 200 - "referrer stuff"
68.178.232.99 - no2son [02/Nov/2007:12:13:22 -0400] "GET /page.htm HTTP/1.1" 200 - "referrer stuff"
74.53.68.130 - no1son [03/Nov/2007:14:13:36 -0400] "GET /page.htm HTTP/1.1" 200 - "referrer stuff"
74.53.68.130 - no1son [03/Nov/2007:14:13:37 -0400] "GET /page4.htm HTTP/1.1" 200 - "referrer stuff"
68.178.232.99 - no3son [04/Nov/2007:03:13:32 -0400] "GET /page9.htm HTTP/1.1" 200 - "referrer stuff"
68.178.232.99 - no3son [04/Nov/2007:03:13:35 -0400] "GET /page3.htm HTTP/1.1" 200 - "referrer stuff"
64.13.232.151 - no2son [04/Nov/2007:09:13:36 -0400] "GET /page.htm HTTP/1.1" 200 - "referrer stuff"

And I want to turn that into this (just a text file) on demand:

out.txt
=====
Most Recent Logins By:
-----
no1son 03/Nov/2007 14:13:37
no2son 04/Nov/2007 09:13:36
no3son 04/Nov/2007 03:13:35
no4son never

So I'd like a shell script or something (perl?) that I can invoke when I feel like it, or from a cron job, or something. Notice that number four son, he never logs in at all. I need to cover that, maybe by calling the script with a list of uids I'm looking for?

But my perl is poor, and my grep skills worse. I can get the last lines from each user out, I think, but then I hit the wall of ripping apart the "fields" usefully and the wall of trying to grep (?) out stuff with square brackets and dashes... and those walls HURT my poor little head.

Can someone show me a simple way to do this? If the big parts work, I can muddle my way through refining it. But a couple hours of Google has just left me feeling inadequate, like a bad son. :(

Address Parsing 101, please!!

cdmwebs — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 15:01:03 -0800

ParseFilter: I have a CSV file full of leads I need to parse into a more, er, concise format. What would the hive mind recommend? It seems to be quite a bit similar to this thread, except I've already got the data in CSV format. But that doesn't mean it's worth anything to me!

It looks like this: NAME, ADDR1, ADDR2, ADDR3, ADDR4. But it might as well be NAME, ONEBIGLONGSTRINGOFSTUFF. Sometimes city and state are in ADDR3 and sometimes in ADDR4. There might be email addresses or phone or fax numbers mixed in, too.

At first I thought I might just try to geocode each record, but I think there's probably a smarter option. Someone mentioned using sed in the other post, but I can't seem to figure out exactly how to go about doing that. Ruby would be peachy, too!

Parse freetext postal addresses to structured form for geocoding to KML?

joshwa — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 19:53:56 -0800

Parse freetext postal addresses to structured form for geocoding to KML? I have a bunch of contact information (harvested from a very user-unfriendly aetna docfind website) that I want to plot on a google map. Naturally, the info is unstructured. If I want to use batchgeocode.com I need to get it into a structured CSV format.

Back when I used windows, I used to use a product called ListGrabber to perform this operation. Now I'm on the Mac, and I don't pirate software anymore, so any good options?

I came across Geo::StreetAddress::US, but I'm not so perl-savvy anymore (I lean towards python and ruby), and it won't separate out the names nicely (though I can probably find a way around that).

How would you do this?

Show me those Perly whites

Slam I Am — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 20:41:06 -0800

How do I color output in Perl? I don't mean in HTML pages, just in regular old shell output from Perl scripts. (I've installed the Win32::Console mod, am calling it at the beginning, and using the right syntax, but am getting an error about undefined values and such...)

Any advice for that mod, plus pointers on the various other ways to get color (and maybe other console functionality like CLS, etc. - but colors are the most important) I know exist would be great. Thanks!

Help Me Morbidly Count Down the Remaining Days of My Life!

WCityMike — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 15:16:04 -0800

I would basically like to rip off, wholesale, some command-line script which will provide me a countdown -- only in days. No years, months, minutes, or seconds. Unfortunately, adapting an existing script is beyond my ken. This idea of Kevin Kelly's inspired me to perhaps try something similar to motivate me towards working more diligently towards long-term personal goals, but I'm not an iGoogle user. I'd like to instead set it up as the result of a shell script which I can then pipe through GeekTool onto my Mac OS X desktop.

The only problem is that there is a lot of Googlenoise out there clogging up the results, and I can't seem to find the kind of script I'm looking for. I did find a countdown script that would tell it to me in years, months, days, horus minutes, and seconds -- but I really would prefer a days-only readout, similar to that depicted on the page. And I see various Javascript to include on webpages -- but I'm looking for something to be done locally, and I can't use the Javascript and then pipe it through lynx or links, since when I bring up such a page using either, the Javascript result doesn't seem to show. (I doubt lynx or links has Javascript support, do they?)

Anyway, can anyone point me towards a shell script that will take the present date, subtract it from a future date, and tell me the number of days between then and now?

I should add that I'm an idiot savante when it comes to shell scripting and Perl ... more of a splicer than anything resembling a programmer. I can sometimes look at code and grok a little of what it's saying, but telling me to embed the Doohickie:Flippa library into the Perl output by piping it through the black hole matrix into my Bananaphone is going to make me look at you blankly.

Thanks!

I need dynamic pages without PHP or a database. What are my options?

genial — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 15:56:46 -0800

Without access to PHP, MySQL, or any other fancy server-side stuff I still need to have dynamic pages. What are my options? Environment: Corporate setting where PHP, MySQL, and anything that doesn't cost thousands of dollars must be banned for "security issues".

My goal is twofold

1. I have a colleague that would like to setup a job queue to track their print jobs (they are a print shop). Currently they have an excel file that has all the nitty gritty details of who ordered what and whether it has printed or not and they share this file though a file server. He wanted to find a way to make the collaboration a bit more dynamic where they would automatically see things as they were updated by any of the 4 people who would be adding jobs.

My thought was to create a webpage tied to a web server that they can all map to as a network drive. The page would be set to auto-refresh every 10 seconds or so. Give each of the 4 people NVU and show them how to edit the table and they're good to go. The problem is the Excel file currently has a conditional format that says if they put an "X" into a certain cell, the row turns red. I need to make that happen on the webpage using javascript and css and I'm lost on how to dynamically say "If the contents of this table data cell has an X, change the span tag to Y" in order to call on that in the stylesheet.

2. Obviously everyone is probably thinking how much easier it would be to find something open source that would fit the bill, if only we were allowed to use perl, php, and all the other fine things in this world. This particularly hits home because in my department we would like to begin collaborating on a large documentation knowledge base. A wiki or something like Bugzilla would be great but all these content management systems require server-side action. Is there any possibility we could squeak by with some fancy javascript saving to txt-based files within the webspace? Does any CMS like that even exist?

Test harness for SNMP traps?

kaydo — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 17:13:18 -0800

Is there a freeware or light weight tool (e.g. perl script) we can use to show us that the SNMP traps are received successfully? I'm implementing IBM Tivoli Omegamon XE for Messages within a Windows 2003 environment. One of our challenges is to integrate with other monitoring tools already within the environment, we've chosen to send SNMP traps. While we appear to be sending these traps successfully, the consuming application isn't quite ready to receive them (i.e. they havent installed it yet).

Is there a freeware or light weight tool (e.g. perl script) we can use to show us that the SNMP traps are received successfully?

I'm already investigating Net-SNMP (ref: sourceforge), but I was looking for recommendations. This is quite a restricted environment, so I'd prefer not to try to introduce new tools, but scripts etc are a-ok.