Problem with die function

[Lulli]

Hi

I have the following script...

$cmd_add_new = 'C:/Apache2/bin/htpasswd -b logg ' . "$userid " . "$passwd";
system($cmd_add_new) or die "Update procedure failed !\n";
print "Password update successful !\n";

The last code line never executes when I run the script. This means that the system function "died" before, right? The problem is that the system function actually has done its job (because I've checked it out in the output file called "logg") and than "died" anyway ???

Thanks

 

[columb]

The problem is that system calls return zero on success and non zero on failure. This means your call should be

system "$cmd_add_new" and die "Update procedure failed!\n";

It looks wrong but it's not!

Columb Healy

 

[Lulli]

Hi

I'sorry but it didn't work. The line after die function - system ($cmd_add_new) and die "Login procedure failed !\n"; - never gets displayed even when the system function really fails.

Thanks anyway

 

[columb]

Is $cmd_add_new returning success/failure to the shell (cmd)? I work on Unix rather than Wintel so I'm not sure of how to test this. It used to be on errorlevel bat that was back in the 16bit days!

If you have control of $cmd_add_new, specially if you wrote it, make sure that the exit commands return suitable values on failure.

Columb Healy