How to su in a script if su needs a pswd ?

Hello, I am running a command as part of my script on a Unix box for which I need to su to a different username. This su requires a password as well. I could not find any option of passing the password in su. Tried the shell script solution of here docs : su TillEnd admin test TillEnd But

RE: connecting to a mail server via IMAP

I don't think you can send attachments using Net::SMTP. Use Mail::Sender by Jenda Krynickyit works ! And what's best is that Jenda is always around in this list raring to help...so u've got real time support ;-) And yes you do indeed need a mail server to connect to... Cheers -aman

RE: How to su in a script if su needs a pswd ?

: Kipp, James [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 17 February 2004 19:35 To: 'Thind, Aman'; Perl Beginners Subject: RE: How to su in a script if su needs a pswd ? Hello, I am running a command as part of my script on a Unix box for which I need to su to a different username. This su requires

RE: How to su in a script if su needs a pswd ?

Hello Randal, In your - If ( aman eq same person who asked in a diff forum) { print JERK; } Else { print Valuable archive of answers to similar question ; } I pass through the else block as you had earlier answered to one Joe Catanzaro though his question was strikingly similar

RE: How to su in a script if su needs a pswd ?

To: Thind, Aman Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How to su in a script if su needs a pswd ? Aman == Thind, Aman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Aman I pass through the else block as you had earlier answered to one Joe Aman Catanzaro though his question was strikingly similar to mine. I just find

Archiving folder containing folders (was - RE: Using archive::tar for archiving a folder)

Thanks for the response David. When I do 'Archive::Tar-create_archive(/tmp/test.tar,0,glob(*.pl))' it tars all the .pl files in the current working directory. However, I need to tar a folder which has many folders inside it. I tried 'Archive::Tar-create_archive(/tmp/test.tar,0,glob(*.*))' and

Using archive::tar for archiving a folder

Hello Friends, I wish to archive a folder into a .tar I've been searching through the documentation of archive::tar module but could not find a way by which I could make the .tar just by specifying the folder name (like on unix prompt tar -cvf myarchive.tar myfoldername) and not explicitly

RE: my ($var) = IN; and my ($var); $var = IN different ?

Thanx Paul That explains the behaviour very clearly. I rushed to my code and replaced all the my ($var) with my $var :) -Original Message- From: Paul Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 February 2004 19:20 To: Thind, Aman Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: my ($var

Always Timing Out in Net::Telnet :(

= while creating a new session ? No matter what I try it always aborts with the msg : timed-out waiting for login prompt at J:\net.pl line 10 :(( Thanx a lot Aman -Original Message- From: Thind, Aman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 05 February 2004 10:55 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject

Remote script execution

Hello Friends, I would be really grateful if someone could help me out with this. I want to write a script that when executed will get lots of details from 10 different Unix(AIX) and Windows(XP) boxes and generate a report. The details to be gathered about the machines include : 1) Names and

RE: Remote script execution

Hello Charles, We have a 100 mbps LAN running tcp\ip...typical to company networks. Thanks Aman Thind -Original Message- From: Charles K. Clarkson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 05 February 2004 11:31 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Remote script execution Thind, Aman [EMAIL