Re: Re: Executing a program or series of programs in perl.

Thanks man works like a charm, i switched it to using system instead of backticks and added >/dev/null like you said. Thank you both for your help.

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Re: Re: Re: Executing a program or series of programs in perl. by meredith (Friar) on May 09, 2003 at 12:33 UTC
If you're running system maintenance tasks, you might want to use something like "`sh foo.sh >> /var/log/maint.log &`" in case something fails. There's nothing like having no idea why something ran a "`chown -R root.wheel /home; chmod 700 /home`" ;) ----mhoward----	[reply]