Not much going on right now other than listening to some patriotic songs from iTunes (Independence Day here in the US is July 4th) while I work on correcting the problems with the PERL scripts. The webmaster got around to changing the permissions on one PERL script yesterday so I was able to change the path therein, thus fixing the problem with our voting page in about 10 minutes.
Now I need to persuade him to do the same to the search engine script so I can change the path there. By the way, yes the problem was the paths. My best guess is the directory where our intraweb site was stored was sym-linked to another directory. By deleting the link and creating a new directory the absolute path, of course, changed. Hence, the scripts which use absolute paths all failed.
I know where the changes need to be made, the problem is getting the webmaster to alter the permissions on the files so that I can make those updates.
Baby steps. That's how government works. Baby steps.
Monday is a holiday so I will see you folks back here on Tuesday.
Have a Great (Long) Weekend Everyone - Aloha!
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. --
