Gurus,

Currently I'm using

        system( "crontab -u root $root_file" );

where $root_file contains the updates for the root crontab file.  What I'm asking today is whether there's another way of running this command in such a way that I can get a pass/fail result into my script. I know eval{} is somewhat frowned upon, so I wonder what might work for me here...  maybe something as simple as

        $result = `crontab -u root "$root_file"`;

might do it? Or doesn't crontab work inside backticks.  (If you get bitten by backticks, does that make the itch go away?)

Thanks,

Deane Rothenmaier
847-914-5150
Walgreens

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