System Administrator wrote:

oops, forgot the signal & timer, so here it is..

#!/usr/bin/perl5 - eval { $SIG{'INT'}= 'exit'; # exit on any funny business alarm(30); # watchdog timer chomp($query=<>); dbmopen(%whois,"whoisdatabase",undef); $answer=$whois{$query}||"what's that?\r\n"; dbmclose(%whois); print($answer); } __END__

ps: im using the free mysql db from www.mysql.com for this under fbsd 4.0

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