> -----Original Message----- > From: Roger C Haslock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2002 5:43 AM > To: Bob Showalter; 'Alex Harris'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: still not catching error > > > You are testing the exit status of the system call, not the > exit status of > the rsh call which is in $?. > You need > > $systemstatus=system(...); > $rshstatus=$?;
>From the docs for system(): ...The return value is the exit status of the program as returned by the "wait" call. To get the actual exit value divide by 256. So he *is* testing the rsh exit status (at least 0 vs non-zero). The problem is that rsh does not return the exit status of the command it is running, which is what the OP is trying to check. $? will not help him with that. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
