On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Gustav H Meyer wrote:
> The close statement is as follows:
> 85 close(MAIL) or die "Can't close pipe to $sendmail: $!\n";
>
> As you can see the value of $! is passed on to the browser together
> with the message. But unfortunately I can see no value to speak of.
> In other words the value must be blank.
Aarrgghh!! is all I can say.
> The strange thing to me is
> that it worked 100% on Solaris 2.7. Has any body else tested this
> specific perl code on Solaris 2.6? What else could be the difference?
Sorry, I'm completely mystified.
Have you tried running an entirely separate Perl script that just opens
MAIL and writes to it? If that works, then it's something in the
environment in which you are running it live.
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