Re: Executing commands through Perl

2007-07-18 Thread Teresa Thomas
Exactly, I actually wish to run 'yum' through Perl, but I want to give (even) a non-sudoer the opportunity to authenticate for root and go ahead with the install. Tom Phoenix wrote: On 7/17/07, Teresa Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: But when I try to execute commands t

Re: Executing commands through Perl

2007-07-17 Thread Teresa Thomas
' and fails. Is this because Perl is not inheriting the standard input properly? Any ideas on how I can fix it? Thanks in advance, Teresa Mr. Shawn H. Corey wrote: Teresa Thomas wrote: Hi, Its my first time (first day actually!) using Perl and I would like some help in performin

Executing commands through Perl

2007-07-16 Thread Teresa Thomas
Hi, Its my first time (first day actually!) using Perl and I would like some help in performing some relatively simple operations. My program outputs two columns of text based data. I want to parse this information, extract some contents and send the contents (which are actually program name