Re: Illegal Seek (Sendmail)

["Eadon, Bryant" <bryant.eadon@csfb.com>]

For all those perl hackers out there who got this message (like me) and accidentally thought it was a SENDMAIL error, it's not. It's a perl problem.

 

This happens because you check $! when you have no business doing so.  Don't use a line like: 

`system_command` or die "Can't do system_comand : $!";

 

It will fail with this illegal seek error.

 

Instead use : 

system("system_command") and die "Can't do system_command : $! ";

 

use "and" because system() returns 0 on successful completion.

 

 

 

Good luck,

 

Bryant Eadon              
Credit   |  First             
Suisse  |  Boston        

Global Market Data Services

 

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