I will be glad if someone can give me a guide. I have a file test.conf [$ip] name=goksie host=$ip directive=ask configdir="/usr/local/etc/"
now to disable this account I just have to remove the change the value of the ip however, I have tried this code it does not help. #!perl use warnings; use strict; print "what is the ip to suspend\n"; our $ip = <STDIN>; chop($ip); my $files = "/perl/test.conf"; open my $fh, '<', $files or die "can't open the files $files: $!"; while(<$fh>){ s/host=$ip/host=$ip.old/g; #print $_ ; } If i run the script, the changes could not be effected bcos the files is a readonly file. I will be glad if someone can put me true goksie -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>