RE: why doesn't this error

2002-02-01 Thread Bob Showalter
> -Original Message- > From: Alex Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 11:06 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: why doesn't this error > > > First, I read perldoc -f exec() and did as follows: > > exec "rsh $plant /u1/bin/forkit 'work.pl'" or >p

Re: why doesn't this error

2002-02-01 Thread Dave Benware
Alex Harris wrote: > > First, I read perldoc -f exec() and did as follows: > > exec "rsh $plant /u1/bin/forkit 'work.pl'" or >print STDERR "Couldn't fork it.\n $!\n"; > > BUT, even though the file it should be exec - ing 'work.pl' does NOT exist > on the remote system, the error doesn