Anthony,
system() return the exit status. Type "perldoc -f
system" . When the command is successful, you will get
0.
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > As a
test I would print $mypid and it had the
> correct pid number in it.
>
> Here is the complete script, if it will help...
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
> use strict;
> use File::Find;
> my $dir = '/usr/local/etc/mrtg';
> my $ext = '.pid';
> my (@dirstruct);
> my $mypid;
>
> find(\&wanted,$dir);
>
> foreach my $afile (@dirstruct) {
> $mypid = system("cat $afile");
> chop($mypid);
> print "Killing instance...";
> #print "$mypid";
> print $mypid;
> #system("kill $mypid");
> }
> exit;
>
> sub wanted {
> my $entry = "$File::Find::name" if -e;
> push @dirstruct, $entry if (($entry ne '') && ((
> m/$ext$/) and (substr
> $entry, 0, -4))); #This will only work with *.pid
> }
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dharmender Rai
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 8:06 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED];
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Problem with variable in system command
>
>
>
> $mypid contains the status of the process not its
> pid.
> --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've
> written a script to search for all *.pid files
> > in a dir, then do
> > a cat on the file. The script will then use this
> > variable to kill the
> > process. The problem I'm having is that the
> > varibale is not being
> > read correctly. I run the script and the kill
> > process tries to run
> > without the variable. Here is a post of the code
> I
> > have. Anyhelp
> > would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> >
> > find(\&wanted,$dir);
> >
> > foreach my $afile (@dirstruct) {
> > $mypid = system("cat $afile");
> > chop($mypid);
> > print "Killing instance...";
> > system("kill $mypid");
> >
> >
> > I wrote this script a few weeks ago and it worked
> > great, but I accidentally
> > deleted it and can't rememeber exactly how it was
> > written. :-/
> >
> >
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