On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Mark Johnson wrote:

> Is there another way to get access to the environment variables... this
> works, but it seems kind of kludgy..
>
> my $machine = `echo \$HOSTNAME`;

$ENV{HOSTNAME};

> Also, is there a way to detemine whether the script is being executed by
> root?
>
> I tired doing:
>
> my $is_root = `echo \$UID`

die "Only root can run this script" if getpwuid($<) ne 'root';

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