On 13 Jan 2005 at 7:58, JupiterHost.Net wrote:
open (CONTROL1, "<test.cont");
always always test to see if it opened or not: (and don't use double quotes when nothgin is beinf interpolated so Perl doesn't have to check it to see if somethign needs interpolated)
open CONTROL1, '<test.cont' or die "Could not open test.cont: $!";
Thanks to everyone who offered help; the script is now working as intended. But I have one question regarding the testing.
The script will be scheduled to run every Saturday at noon. When that happens, what happens with the error message? I realize that this is probably rather obvious to those who have worked at *nix for a while, but I am as much a *nix beginner as a Perl beginner.
If you have a mail server set-up (like sendmail) then cron (I assume you are using cron) will mail you anything printed to STDOUT or STDERR.
John -- use Perl; program fulfillment
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