cheers guys for that.

that worked great, but if you don't mind, cna i ask you one more question? This is the script that i am using below:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Getopt::Long;

my ($username, $password, $domain);
my $result = GetOptions("username=s" => \$username,
                        "password=s" => \$password, 
                        "domain=s => \$domain");
                                                         
system ("adduser $username -g 100 -s /bin/false -d /home/$username -p 
+$password");
                                                                      
+          open (VFILE, ">> /etc/postfix/virtual");                   
+                                                                     
+         
print VFILE "$username\@ap3k.com\t$username\n";
close (VFILE);
                                                       
system ("postmap /etc/postfix/virtual");

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when the command adduser is run, if it returns adduser: user foo already exists

i want it to break out of running the rest of the script and maybe just return an error

James

Edited: ~Wed Jul 31 23:07:40 2002 (GMT) by footpad: Added <code> and other HTML formatting tags.

In reply to Re: Re: Taking Input And Running In Script by hostux
in thread Taking Input And Running In Script by hostux

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