RE: [Sheflug] Weird happenings with PERL script and cron

[David Mitchell <nospam [at] fdgroup.co.uk>]

> Even if this can't happen, it would be appropriately paranoid to check
> the return values on all the system calls.

It's quite hard to get return statuses (statii ??) from system("...")
calls. A different approach would be to check for non-zeroness, eg

system('rcp .... foo');
die "Copied file 'foo' is non-existent/zero-length!!\n" unless -s 'foo';

Of course, this wont detect a partially truncated file.

[ But what has any of this got to do with Linux... ;-)  ]

Dave.

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