Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 07:53:40 -0500 (CDT) From: David Fleck <david.fleck@mchsi.com> To: JJB <Barbish3@adelphia.net> Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD. ORG" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: issue newsyslog cmd from perl scrip Message-ID: <20040513074839.X83403@grond.sourballs.org> In-Reply-To: <MIEPLLIBMLEEABPDBIEGGEPBFNAA.Barbish3@adelphia.net> References: <MIEPLLIBMLEEABPDBIEGGEPBFNAA.Barbish3@adelphia.net>
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On Wed, 12 May 2004, JJB wrote:
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> # issue command and capture verbose o/p to $line
> newsyslog "-v $logfile" > $line; # this statement gets error
[...snip...]
It would be helpful to see exactly what the error is, but I would guess
it's that 'newsyslog' is not a perl function. To run another executable
from within a perl script, you need to do something like:
system("newsyslog \"-v $logfile\" > $line");
there are, of course, other ways to do it as well.
--
David Fleck
david.fleck@mchsi.com
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