On Tue, 25 Apr 2006, Bob Hutchinson wrote: > The trouble with perl system() calls is that you don't get any result > codes, I might experiment with backticks instead.
Someone suggested touch, here's the simple way: if ($result == 200) { system "gunzip -v --stdout $file > $dbfile"; my ($dev,$ino,$mode,$nlink,$uid,$gid,$rdev,$size, $atime,$mtime,$ctime,$blksize,$blocks) = stat($file); utime $atime, $mtime, $dbfile; } I actually don't have this automated myself yet, since the updates are so infrequent. I run the downloader by hand in a scratch dir, and if it grabs a new file run a script that distributes it to my servers. ========================================================== Chris Candreva -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- (914) 967-7816 WestNet Internet Services of Westchester http://www.westnet.com/ _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html