Archive for June, 2008

Our contribution to the community: CPAN PowerDNS modules released.

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

We have released several PowerDNS modules to CPAN: http://search.cpan.org/~augie/ PowerDNS::Backend::MySQL Provides an interface to manipulate PowerDNS data in the MySQL Backend. PowerDNS::Control::Client Provides an interface to control the PowerDNS daemon. PowerDNS::Control::Server Provides an interface to control the PowerDNS daemon.

Perl , $SIG{CHLD} = ‘IGNORE’ , system() and you.

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

At first blush you probably would not expect the following to print "-1"; as you probably expect "system" to execute and return the return code from "echo". $SIG{CHLD} = 'IGNORE'; print system('echo'); This stumped me too, so I did some research. From the Perl PIC Documentation: On most Unix platforms, the CHLD (sometimes also known ...

Procmail Tips: How to forward your email.

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

Not that you would ever want to forward your email away from Sonic.net, but maybe you like the idea of archiving and searching your E-Mail at a secondary E-Mail location; to that end the post below details how you should be forwarding your E-Mail in any UNIX environment. You know that ...