Re: "system" command help

2005-11-10 Thread Shawn Corey
Marilyn Sander wrote: On Nov 9, 2005, at 4:52 PM, Pablo Wolter wrote: 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.

Re: "system" command help

2005-11-09 Thread Rakesh Mishra
On 11/10/05, Marilyn Sander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Nov 9, 2005, at 4:52 PM, Pablo Wolter wrote: > > > 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 i

Re: "system" command help

2005-11-09 Thread Marilyn Sander
On Nov 9, 2005, at 4:52 PM, Pablo Wolter wrote: 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 t

Re: "system" command help

2005-11-09 Thread Pablo Wolter
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. 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 t

"system" command help

2005-11-09 Thread heena s
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 - Yahoo! FareChase - Search multiple tr