Monks,
I'm running on SunOS 5.10, using perl v5.8.4 .
According to the man page:

     Example 3: Executing command with user bin's Environment and
     Permissions

     To execute command with the temporary environment  and  per-
     missions of user bin, type:

     example% su - bin -c "command args"

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and I run the cmd (from root)
su - myuser -c "/home/myuser/t1.pl"

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on file
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

open(OUT,">su-test.log") or die;
print OUT "user $ENV{'USER'}\n";
close(OUT) or die;
exit;

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but get error

Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /home/myuser/t1.pl line 5.

Any ideas, ie why doesn't it work as per man page?

Cheers
Chris

In reply to Obtaining %ENV values via su cmd by chrism01

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