From: Steve Hideg (hideg@saintmarys.edu)
Date: Tue Sep 12 2000 - 12:07:29 CDT
($theHostname,$ignore) = split("@",$theHostname);
At 11:38 AM -0700 9/12/00, Nick Ciesinski wrote:
>I have installed Netreg and it is working great except for one small
>problem. The problem is that students are typing there full e-mail address
>as there username and the system validates them just fine. So the perl
>scripts then write the e-mail name as the host and because the e-mail
>address has a @ in it the dhcp server will not start up because of the @
>symbol in the dhcpd.conf file.
>
>I am wondering if anyone has made a addition to the perl scripts to catch a
>student who puts there full e-mail address in and in turn gives them a
>error message. If so it would be greatly appreciated if you could pass
>along your code. I have tried to do it myself but because I don't know perl
>that well I can't seem to get it to work.
>
>Thanks!
>
>Nick Ciesinski
>University Wisconsin Whitewater
>Residence Life ComputingNetwork Administrator Assistant III
_________________________________________________________________________
Steve Hideg
Technical Support Specialist, Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame IN
<hideg@saintmarys.edu>
_________________________________________________________________________
"The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you're finished."
-Nelson DeMille
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