Hi all,
I am a newbie at Perl, nuf said there I guess.

I have a need to move my log files around and I am using a simple perl scp script to do this. Now I need to add some error reporting to the script and I am in over my head.

1: I need to send an email when scp cannot connect to a server
2: I need to send and email if scp cannot find the file to download How can I get the error codes on a failure and what do I do with it?

Please help me out if you can, I've been searching the web with no luck for 2 days.

currently my scp command looks something like this: 

GET THE FILE WITH SCP
#

$filetoget="$LOGFILEDIR/$f\.@FILEDOMAIN\$i\.$year-$mon-$mday";

$command = "/usr/bin/scp $a:$filetoget $f\.@FILEDOMAIN\$i\.$year$mon$m
+day\.$a";

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In reply to help with scp error codes by wskibum

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