NCSA Plugin Wrapper

[mitchell perilstein]

Benoit Panizzon wrote:

>I do a open(READ, "plugin args |");
>and read the plugin output into $poutput;
>
>open(WRITE, "| nsca");
>print($host\t$service\t$status\t$poutput\n");
>
>But how the hell do I read the exit code from the plugin with open which I
>need to fill the $status needed for nsca?
>

Look at the return value when you close the file handle:
    $status = close(READ);

See "perldoc -f close" for details.

-- 
Mitchell Perilstein
ACE Technology Group, LLC
http://www.acetechgroup.com
866-229-1543 x11



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