Hi all, I am having a strange problem. I used to have few perl scripts working fine until recently I moved to AIX 4.3.3 from 4.3.1. With the new version of OS, in all of my perl scripts, if I am running any shell commands or other perl scripts using backticks are failing in the following conditions. Any ideas why it is failing? 1. if I connect to database using DBI->connect and call these scripts using backticks before I disconnect from the database, those called scripts are not working. 2. If I disconnect from the database before calling them, all the scripts in backticks are working fine. Because of this, I was forced to connect to the database each time for each SQL activity and disconnect immediately after updating the database. But in few places, I cannot disconnect, because I am using the return values from the SQL in calling these scripts. But I have to use backticks because I am expecting a return value from them. I cannot use either system() or exec() calls. Any ideas why it is failing? I am using Oracle8. Any other alternative for this backticks? I am using Perl 5.5 and I tried with Perl 5.6 also and also with the latest patches from IBM for AIX/Perl, but no use. Thanks in advance. Rajeev Nalluri -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
