As previous posters have pointed out, you are passing the name, not the content, of the log file to the command - a more concise means (than shown elsewhere in this thread) of achieving the same end would be along the lines of... 
 
my ($LOGFILE, @content) = ("/home/admin/logs/check_jvm/check_jvm_$LOGT
+IME.log");

open LOG, "<$LOGFILE" or die "open($LOGFILE) failed - $!";
chomp(@content = <LOG>);
close LOG;

my @args = ("/home/admin/bin/email.ksh", @content, "Web Server Issue",
+ "PROD", "/home/admin/logs/check_jvm/EmailAlert.log");
system(@args) == 0
or die "system @args failed: $?"

[download]
Update: Added call to chomp ... for, hopefully obvious reasons ;-)

Thanx to fullermd - changed @LOG to @content & removed quotes (it's already in list context) in assignment of/to <c>@args>/c>

A user level that continues to overstate my experience :-))

In reply to Re: Passing the contents of a file in a "system" call to a .ksh script by Bloodnok
in thread Passing the contents of a file in a "system" call to a .ksh script by BrotherElwood

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.