Strange Teamsite Behavior

abhijeet1

I have the following scenario (Teamsite 671 on Win2k3)

User triggered Workflow ---> Perl Script ---> external command to invoke Opendeploy.

In the perl script, If I use

system($cmd);

It doesnot work... (atleast the OD logs dont record any activity)


If I use

qx($cmd 2>&1); nothing....

But

if I have a log file open with the file handle LOGFILE and I do the following.. it works.

print LOGFILE qx($cmd 2>&1);

How can I make it work without having to worry about a huge log file building up on the server? More importantly why would the last command work?

abhijeet

Tbag

Try something like this:

#
#  Assemble your od command up here
#
my($output) = "";
open(PIPE, "$od_cmd 2>&1 |");
while(<PIPE>){
    $output .= $_;
}
close(PIPE);

What you do with the contents of '$output' is up to you. . .throw it away or log it, as the business case demands.