Problem with Perl and Fedora Core 1

Alexandre de Abreu alexandre.abreu at proteus.com.br
Mon Feb 16 13:51:30 UTC 2004


Dave Mendez wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
> 
>  
> 
> I have been using RH Linux on our network for over 7 years now and we 
> have been testing out Fedora Core 1 on a machine and have been pleased 
> so far.  However we have run into a problem that I think is related to 
> Fedora since we never have had the problem in the Red Hat distros.  The 
> problem we are having is with Perl 5.8.1.  For the most part Perl works 
> fine but a lot of our programs in perl use the command “exec” in the 
> script.  For example here is a line of code from a program called 
> /usersearch.pl/:
> 
>  
> 
> if ($status == 1)
> 
> {
>             print “Name Found\n”;
> 
> }
> 
> else
> 
> {
> 
>             exec “namelookup.pl”
> 
> }

Try to use "eq" to compare between numbers. The "==" is used for string 
comparing. Maybe it isn't getting into the right way.

[]'s

-- 
Alexandre Lima de Abreu, RHCE, LPIC-2
http://www.proteus.com.br
Proteus Security Systems
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