Hello Everyone, I have searched through several sites and dozens of books to no avail. My script is required to execute FTP commands. Some years ago I wrote it to create an FTP shell script and execute that script on a UNIX platform. Worked fine as long as the NT server I wanted to FTP to had an FTP service running. Now they want the script to be able to remotely check if the NT machine is running the service and start it if it is not. Also they want the user to be notified when the FTP commands fail. So I cannot use the Bourne shell for the FTP commands any longer. I have seen that the FTP process can be done inside the perl script, but not how to run something like a 'ps' command or 'net start' to determine if the service I want is running. I have no clue whether a perl script could cross over from UNIX to NT and run a process. Can anyone please point me in the right direction to find a simple example of this so I can gain some knowledge about how to do this? Thank you, Michael (aka maslas)

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