compile it like a cgi...not as a module (./configure instead of ./configure
--with-apache.....) ...then you can, although perl probably is more suitable
for most tasks, use it to do various things...

eg, at home, i have quite a few cron'd php proggies that do some db stuff
for me, that aren't involved w/the web. they work essentially the same way,
except the first like of my cron'd php proggies, i have #!/usr/local/bin/php
[plus the appropriate args...]

another example is some netmon stuff i'm working on...pinging boxes/routers,
making sure certain services are running on other boxes, etc etc...i could
do this with shell scripting and some c or perl, but, i prefer php, and it
does what i need it to do, so i use it...for me, it's the right tool for the
job

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Cantrell [mailto:yomahz@devnull.org]
Sent: Friday, June 16, 2000 11:05 PM
To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
Subject: Re: Unsolicited Faxes and TheLinuxStore.com


Really? Wow.. I wasn't even aware..  Can you go into more detail? A quick
search on their website didn't turn up anything.



----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Peoples" <hondaman@mainex1.asu.edu>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Friday, June 16, 2000 10:49 PM
Subject: RE: Unsolicited Faxes and TheLinuxStore.com


> Just to be devil's advocate, PHP isn't strictly web-based.  =)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Cantrell [mailto:yomahz@devnull.org]
> Sent: Friday, June 16, 2000 10:44 PM
> To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Re: Unsolicited Faxes and TheLinuxStore.com
>
>
> Heh.. the linuxstore.. those guys are a joke. I met a their 'web guys' at
a
> bar awhile back and we had a rather interesting discussion. It went a
little
> like this:
>
>
> Me: 'Nice Shirt' (he was wearing a penguin T-shirt)
>
> Guy1: 'Actually I hate Linux'
>
> Me: 'lemme guess.... you like BSD?'
>
> Guy1: 'Wow! lemme shake your hand... Linux sucks'
>
> Me: 'Hold on there a sec... BSD is great but they each have their
> advantages'
>
> Guy1: 'Whatever'
>
>
> Sometime later while discussing our jobs:
>
> Me: 'I'm a Perl developer... I mainly work with web stuff
(Apache/mySQL)..'
>
> Guy1: 'Perl sucks'
> Guy2: 'Yeah.. PHP rules!'
>
> Me: 'Umm.... what happens when you want to do something besides web
stuff?'
>
> Guy[12]: 'Ummm.... yeah.. I guess Perl is OK'
>
> Me: 'Anyways... I've been learning C++ and I like it so far..'
>
> Guy1: 'C++ sucks'
> Guy2: 'Yeah... C rules..'
>
> Me: 'What? Isn't C a subset of C++?'
>
> Guy[12]: (strange looks on face)
>
> Me: 'The C++ compiler can do anything the C compiler can do... the C
> compiler lacks many features that the C++ compiler has... right?' (Note:
> this is my understanding.. I'm sure I'll be corrected if I'm wrong :)
>
> Guy[12]: 'I guess your right'
>
>
>
> I don't think we said much else to each other after that... It was kinda
> funny.
>
> Regards,
> Mike Cantrell
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rod Roark" <rod@sunsetsystems.com>
> To: <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>; <azipa@egroups.com>
> Sent: Friday, June 16, 2000 7:39 PM
> Subject: Unsolicited Faxes and TheLinuxStore.com
>
>
> > Is anyone besides me getting pissed off by multiple unsolicited faxes
> > from TheLinuxStore.com?  If so, please save these as evidence and
> > contact me offline.
> >
> > As discussed about 6 months ago on the AZIPA list, unsolicited faxes
> > are a violation of 47 USC Sec. 227 and can be punished by up to $1500
> > per violation.
> >
> > -- Rod
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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> > http://www.sunsetsystems.com/                      and Custom Software
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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