I've come to seek more of the infinite wisdom! I have a chunk of code setup, if invoked it goes through the process to add a printer queue to Unix. I have a function built in to check the status of the print spooler. 

if ($add) {
    $add = lc($add);
    if ( -e "/var/spool/lp/request/$add" ) {
        die "This printer is already defined!\n";
    }
    else {
        my %add_cmd = ( add => "addqueue -h $add -q $add -i 3" );

        # Lab Version will be more sophisticated
        print "Adding queue \"$add\"\n";
        system( $add_cmd {'add'} );
        sleep 5;

        # If spooler is down, automatically restart it.

        print "Checking the status of the print spooler....\n";
        my $spooler = `lpstat -r`;
        if ( $spooler = "scheduler is not running" ) {
            system("lpsched");
        }
        sleep 5;
        print ".... Done \n";
        exit 0;
    }
}

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It doesn't seem to work, no matter what the command is run, my question is: should I just use a pattern matching technique as opposed to assigning string value to $spooler?

In reply to Backticks and Pattern Matching. by misconfiguration

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