> -----Original Message----- > From: Chris Devers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 1:18 PM > To: Tyson Sommer > Cc: 'Perl Beginners List' > Subject: Re: printing output of ping command -- New question > at bottom. > > On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Tyson Sommer wrote: > > > This might be a question for beginners-cgi, but since it > was mentioned > > here... > > Sounds like it, but oh well. > > This doesn't really fix your problem so much as your error > handling, but > why aren't you catching the reason your script dies? > > Instead of > > my $pinger = Net::Ping->new("icmp") || die; > > Why not use > > my $pinger = Net::Ping->new("icmp") || die "Can't make > pinger: $!";
I do that. I just was being lazy in typing here (thought that part was inconsequential). > This might at least give you a more descriptive error message... > > Also, are you having CGI::Carp use fatalsToBrowser for testing? Yes. Thus the error message that I'm seeing in my browser. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>