---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Raheel Hassan <raheel.hassan@gmail.com> Date: Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 2:48 PM Subject: This code is not giving the required output. To: beginners-help@perl.org Hello, I have problems in executing the under given code. I need to restart my database, apache etc services using on ubuntu machine. for that i have written thsi code, but the result of the command is not saving in the file , any suggestions please. my $result = 'service mysql start 2>>/var/log/comm.log'; sleep 10; if($result =~ /OK/) { print "OK"; } else { print "NOK\n"; Regards, Raheel.Thread Next