RE: RE: compound perl question

In my infinite newbie-ness, it appears that this will just echo back that it has exited and will restart ...but doesn't actually *do* that.

Am I applying the wrong tools (perl) for this job?

thx,
nascent

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RE: RE: RE: compound perl question by chromatic (Archbishop) on Mar 12, 2000 at 09:45 UTC
You might be thinking of the exec command. Take a look at system. It actually forks off the system call, and then the parent waits for the child to exit before proceeding. When pppd exits, the parent process will print the error message, hit the end of the loop, and repeat. With your original question, I would do something like: my $ifconfig_data = `/sbin/ifconfig ppp0`; and then use a regexp to look for a valid IP address or whatever you like.	[reply] [d/l]

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RE: RE: RE: compound perl question
by chromatic (Archbishop) on Mar 12, 2000 at 09:45 UTC

exec

system

With your original question, I would do something like: my $ifconfig_data = `/sbin/ifconfig ppp0`; and then use a regexp to look for a valid IP address or whatever you like.

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