Oh, sorry. I didn't notice that.

In that case, let me modify the above code like this (untested): 

my $resultLdapSearch;
{
defined(my $pid = open my $P, "-|") or die "error forking ldapmodify: 
+$!";
if (!$pid) {
    open STDERR, ">&STDOUT" or 
       die "error dup2ing stdout to stderr";
    exec "ldapmodify", "-h", $ldap_server, "-D", "cn=Directory Manager
+", "-w", $dir_mgr_pwd, "-f", $ldap_modify_file or
        die "cannot exec ldapmodify: $!";
    die; # just to be sure
}
local $/ = undef;
defined($resultLdapSearch = <$P>) or 
    die "error reading from pipe: $!";
close $P or 
   die $! ? "error closing pipe: $!" : "ldapmodify exitted with a nonz
+ero exit status: $?";
}

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In reply to Re^6: How to capture error messages... by ambrus
in thread How to capture error messages... by fabster01

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