On the topic of FHs, I have a CGI script that opens a file handle and then in the HTML code I print out the results -
open(FH, "grep blahblah /usr/local/apache/log |"); print "<html>\n"; etc.. while <FH>{ print "$_ <br>"; } etc.. print "</html>"; Now my problem is how do I time out the grep command?? Sometimes one of the files that it runs against takes forever to mount (automount). Also the logs are so big that grep runs forever - is there anyway to stop it, besides getting on the box and killing the PID? -----Original Message----- From: Todd Wade [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, July 06, 2002 7:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: What could go wrong with closing an FH ? "David Vd Geer Inhuur Tbv Iplib" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > > Hi All, > > After a couple of emails about opening a file with a lower case FH, I have a > question. I see everyone opening a file with an "or die" statement, what I can > fully understand. But I see you also close the FH with an "or die" statement. > > Why ? What can go wrong with closing an FH ? > > Can anyone tell me the answer ? I am much interested. > The two major ones I can think of off the top of my head is if the disk fills up or you are writing to a file on a network disk and the connection goes goes down. In both circumstances your data was lost and you would want to know about it. There are many others. Todd W. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]