issue newsyslog cmd from perl scrip

[David Fleck]

On Wed, 12 May 2004, JJB wrote:
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> # issue command and capture verbose o/p to $line
> newsyslog "-v $logfile" > $line;  # this statement gets error
[...snip...]

It would be helpful to see exactly what the error is, but I would guess
it's that 'newsyslog' is not a perl function.  To run another executable
from within a perl script, you need to do something like:

system("newsyslog \"-v $logfile\" > $line");

there are, of course, other ways to do it as well.


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David Fleck
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