On 11/10/05, Marilyn Sander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> On Nov 9, 2005, at 4:52 PM, Pablo Wolter wrote:
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> > The system function call returns a boolean value as return value, I
> > don't
> > remember if 1 is for fail and 0 for success or viceversa.
>
> Actually it is not a boolean value. It is a two-byte value, and each
> byte is an integer. You need to look up the system() function in
> some Perl documentation. If you get two bytes of zero back, that
> means system() and the command it invoked ran successfully. If you
> get a non-zero value, the lower byte indicates what error was found
> in the Perl run-time; the upper byte is the return code from the
> command executed by system().
>
> --Marilyn
Bravo Marliyn
>
> > I think your mistake is the lack of the test construction like if, so
> >
> > if (system("$addgroup \"$group\"") == 0) {
> > ... do something ...
> > }
> >
> > I'm not in a box with perl to test this but something like that could
> > work.
> >
> > Pablo.
> >
There is no need of puting if condition as command written in the system
function execute succesfuly , it will return 0 else non zero value ,what
ever the out put it is compared with condition "==0"
>
> > On 11/9/05, heena s <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>
> >> hi,
> >>
> >> is there any mistake in the script:
> >>
> >> #ADDING A TOOL GROUP
> >> system("$addgroup \"$group\"") == 0
> >> or die "system @args failed: $?"
> >>
> >> &log_message("the group $group added");
> >>
> >> thanks
> >>
> >>
yes your script is right .
onewaylife
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