From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG  Tue Jul  8 08:26:47 2003
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C09737B401
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Tue,  8 Jul 2003 08:26:47 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from blacklamb.mykitchentable.net
	(65-37-69-83.bras01.elk.ca.frontiernet.net [65.37.69.83])
	by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B496243F75
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Tue,  8 Jul 2003 08:26:46 -0700 (PDT)
	(envelope-from drew@mykitchentable.net)
Received: from tagalong (unknown [165.107.42.110])
	by blacklamb.mykitchentable.net (Postfix) with SMTP
	id CE2A53BF41E; Tue,  8 Jul 2003 08:26:45 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <003a01c34565$57c94ed0$6e2a6ba5@lc.ca.gov>
From: "Drew Tomlinson" <drew@mykitchentable.net>
To: "Simon Barner" <barner@in.tum.de>,
	"Rob" <listone@deathbeforedecaf.net>
References: <003001c3455e$b6c322f0$6e2a6ba5@lc.ca.gov>
	<000a01c34561$228ff5b0$a4b826cb@goo>
	<20030708151439.GD901@zi025.glhnet.mhn.de>
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 08:26:45 -0700
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
	charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165
cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: Can I Set Process Name?
X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1
Precedence: list
List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>,
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>,
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2003 15:26:47 -0000

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Simon Barner" <barner@in.tum.de>
To: "Rob" <listone@deathbeforedecaf.net>
Cc: "Drew Tomlinson" <drew@mykitchentable.net>; "FreeBSD Questions"
<freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 8:14 AM

> > setproctitle(3) - but I don't know how you would call it from perl.

> You can do it by altering the $0 variable:

> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
> use strict;

> $0='Will it work?';

> sleep (10);

> A ps | grep 'Will' gives me:

> 2551  p3  SN     0:00.02 Will it work? (perl)

Thank you both for your answers.  I'm not much of a scripter but I tried
your suggestion with the webmin script.  I found that the actual file is
/usr/local/lib/webmin/miniserv.pl and edited the beginning of the file
as such:

#!/usr/bin/perl
# A very simple perl web server used by Webmin

$0='webmin'

# Require basic libraries
package miniserv;

However when starting the program it dies with the following message:

syntax error at /usr/local/lib/webmin/miniserv.pl line 7, near "package
miniserv"
BEGIN not safe after errors--compilation aborted at
/usr/local/lib/webmin/miniserv.pl line 8.

Is there something really easy I'm missing?  If it's complicated I'm
going to forget it as it's not that important.

Thanks,

Drew