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splash screen during booting?
Greetings! After i ve made my selection in the boot menu, id like to have a nice image (eg. a beatiful maiden:) ) instead of all the verbose booting messages. How can i accomplish that? If its to be done within the bootloader, i work with lilo on a redhat-like system. Thankful for...- subotai
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fast way to get file length?
OUCH! Im really sorry, just found the stat(FILE); function. Apologies to everyone who wasted time on this! -
fast way to get file length?
Greetings! Probably a simple question: How can i determine the file length in bytes of a simple text file? Something with a while (! eof(FILE)) - loop, a getc(FILE) inside, incrementing a counter? I keep producing eternal loops with this! Please forgive me, (Subotai==newbie)=1 :-D Thankful for... -
write SELECTIVELY into a txt-file?
Greetings! Ive been fumbling around with reading and writing linux config-files, especially reading out different user-input, using pattern matching etc. Im getting there, perl seems very user-friendly in that matter. Only thing left to me is: how can i SELECTIVELY change (write) data in a... -
system ("shellscript"); - question
Hello Justice41! I've taken into account your information, but it still wont exec. Tried the same with system ("touch /PATH/something"); and it worked. I've set all the scripts rights to x, r and w, owner to root, and the webserver has root access rights. Cant really figure out what... -
system ("shellscript"); - question
Greetings! Environment: linux, perl interpreter, browser. I want to run a shell script from a perl script in my browser. Dont i do this with 'system ("shellscript");' ? Works with things like ("touch test.txt"), but it does not execute my shellscript. Any ideas? thank you...
