This is what I've ended up doing. I test for the return code of a call to an external program and if that returns a non-zero, I die and pass the return code to the END from die. Then, within the END, I test $? to see if it is greater than zero, if it is, then I copy the log with an error message and send an alert. Otherwise I copy the log with a different name and exit completely with a 0. This may be kludgy but it seems to work (for the moment). using eval() and $@ does not work so well because I can't get the error messages into $@ (at least not yet). 

&My::custom_routine("TESTTRANSFER");
my $rc=$?>>8;
die ($rc) if ($rc > 0);

END {
   if ($? > 0) {
   print STDERR "TEST.PL Died with error.\n";
   copy("TEST.LOG", "TEST.ERROR");
   &My::pager("TEST ERROR MESSAGE.");
   }else{
   print STDERR "TEST.PL completed successfully.\n";
   copy("TEST.LOG", "TEST.GOOD");
   exit 0;
   }
}

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Thanks for the help.

"Ex libris un peut de tout"

In reply to Re: Re: die function and notifications by nimdokk
in thread die function and notifications by nimdokk

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