The error results of useradd appear to go to STDERR instead of STDOUT. You can redirect them to STDOUT, and therefore capture the results, like this:
my $username='username'; my $rescmd=`/usr/sbin/useradd -s /bin/false $username 2>&1`; chomp $rescmd; print "Result is $rescmd\n"; On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 12:00, Martín Alejandro Carmona Selva wrote: > $rescmd =""; # no error by default > $cmd = "useradd -s /bin/false $useradd"; > $rescmd = `$cmd`; > > The problem is that $rescmd stays empty. I know that it will be empty if > everything goes okay (since well, useradd returns nothing if no error > occours), but I'm trying to create an already existing user (to get the > error). -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
