Execute shell script from perl

[LucL]

Hi,

This is kinda stupid, but for some reason I can't figure it out...

I know exec,system, and backticks can be used to execute programs outside of the currently running perl script.

I'm making an autoinstaller for apache that we'll use on a bunch of systems. It removes previous versions, downloads and unzips the latest version. All those work (using backticks) but when I try to run `./configure` (and yes, i changed to the httpd directory) nothing happens. No errors, no output.

I tried with exec,system and ticks. With and without paramaters.

Any ideas?
Thanks!

 

[MillerH]

All I would suggest is to look into adding the error checking conditions documented for each of those commands.

http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/system.html

http://perldoc.perl.org/perlop.html#`STRING`

- Miller