Thanks everyone! I suppose I should learn all the special variables
after all...
James
At 7:52 PM -0500 1/5/06, Sherm Pendley wrote:
On Jan 5, 2006, at 6:04 PM, Sherm Pendley wrote:
If you need more than the numeric user ID, have a look at:
perldoc getpwnam
perldoc User::pw
On Jan 5, 2006, at 6:04 PM, Sherm Pendley wrote:
If you need more than the numeric user ID, have a look at:
perldoc getpwnam
perldoc User::pwent
D'oh! getpwnam() is a function (not a module), so that should be:
perldoc -f getpwnam
perldoc User::pwent
sherm--
On Jan 5, 2006, at 5:53 PM, James Reynolds wrote:
I know I can get this with `whoami`, but I was wondering if there
was a "Perl" way to find the user who executed the script. I
basically want to make it so my script is executable by normal
users, but prints an error if it is not only the r
I know I can get this with `whoami`, but I was wondering if there was
a "Perl" way to find the user who executed the script. I basically
want to make it so my script is executable by normal users, but
prints an error if it is not only the root user.
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Thanks,
James Reynolds
University of U
