jason writes..

>I am using a perl script to pull down some IIS logs so 
>webtrends can run
>reports on them (I know that webtrends can do it, but that program has
>more holes than....something holey.  I hate it.  Anyway....) and I have
>the following problem.
>
>The ncftpget program will print success messages to STDOUT and error
>messages to STDERR. I want to send out an email summary to myself and
>the other person responsible for these reports, but if I do this:
>
>$status .= `ncftpget ./truckerbuddy/
>$log_path_trucker_buddy/$logfilename 2>>&1`;
>
>I am only receiving error messages. 

That shouldn't be the case, but anyway - your following paragraph
negates this method for other reasons.

>Any help?  I would ideally like to be able to have a variable that
>catches the positive text and one that catches the negative so 
>I can sum
>it up nicely in an email.

You should use IPC::Open3 which allows you to tie the STDOUT and STDERR
from a command to different filehandles and then read from them.

-- 
  Jason King
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