maybe you could capture the output with backticks instead of system():
$retcode = `$command`;
and parse $retcode for different responses, so your script can then behave
accordingly. of course, you would need to know what the responses are ahead
of time.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: qwertu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 7:06 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [analog-help] return code
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm using analog 4.13 on a SuSE Linux 7.0 system.
> I'm starting analog out of a perl script wich provides all parameters.
> e.g.:
> ----
> $command = "analog ....";
> $retcode = system($command);
> print $retcode; # print return code on screen
> ----
> If analog ends successfully the return code is 0. If analog
> can't find the
> dns.txt or the logfile a warning is printed on screen, but
> the return code
> remains 0. Is there a way to get different return codes for
> each case (e.g.
> no logfile, no dns.txt, etc.)?
>
> Hope, my bad english makes sense for you all!
>
> Yours
>
> Christian Teufel
>
>
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