Hi,

I have been having problems with file locking (now sorted out) and file opens, see Perl script crashing at lockfile, and the only problem now is the script is stopping here

open(SENDMAIL, '|/usr/sbin/sendmail -oi -t')
   or (unlink ($outfile),
    diehtml("Can't fork for sendmail: $!\n"));

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Considering the problems I have been having with using "open", should the above code be replaced by

sysopen(SENDMAIL, "|/usr/sbin/sendmail -oi -t", O_CREAT | O_EXCL | O_R
+DWR, 0600)
   or (unlink ($outfile),
    diehtml("Can't fork for sendmail: $!\n"));

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Peter

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