Script stops execution because you have not handled the case where
> connect() fails.
>
yes, you are correct.
>
> Use:
> my $dbh = DBI->connect(...) or mysendmail("Cannot connect to DB: " .
> DBI->errstr);
>
I use die in the case of the failure of a statement, never thought about the
construct mentioned above.
>
> It's good programming practice to always check the return values of your
> system and function calls.
>
yes very valid point.
>
>
> If you are running this script through cron/at then be truly lazy (it's one
> of
> the virtues of a perl programmer right?) and don't bother with sendmail at
> all.
> Any output on stderr will be automatically emailed by cron/at to the
> configured
> email address. Just use the regular warn/die calls in Perl and cron/at
> will
> automatically take care of emailing them to your user.
>
:), learned a new feature of cron.
Thanks Raja, thanks again.
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Ravi Jaya
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