On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 12:34:19PM -0400, Chris Staskewicz wrote: > Currently I'm running the Perl script at the command-line with a > "./run.pl". The problem is that once Perl hits the system call, the shell > hangs until I manually type "exit". Then the program chokes since all the > code after the "be" call requires the permissions from "be". Any ideas on > passing the "be" info to Perl and stop this hanging?
I think you might be able to do this by setting $< and/or $>. You can use getpwnam() to figure out the user id for a given user name. Ronald _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

