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Re: [PLUG] access to system and perl stat()
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> I just wrote a little perl script to keep an eye on some rarely-used
> mail drops. It uses stat() to decide whether the spool file has been
> modified in the last X minutes.
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> Works fine on my own Linux box but not on a couple other UNIX machines I
> have accounts on. These machines don't let me execute the stat command
> from the shell, and the stat call fails in my script.
Can you tell us what $! is set to after stat() fails?
Are you able to run ls -l against these files?
-mct
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