APM: Process/System questions

[ezra pagel]

Using backticks/qx instead of system() will let you capture standard 
output; you can redirect stderr if you need it. You can still check $? 
for the system exit code.

Bakken, Tom - Temple, TX wrote:

>Some time ago I posted a problem I was having with a script that was
>supposed to restart workstations but stalled when it hit certain PCs.  I
>used Bill Raty's suggestion of the spawn subroutine.   I wasn't able to
>get it to work and put it aside until I recently had more time and now
>seem to have gotten it running.
>
>Shutdown.exe has a known bug where if the workstation that's to be shut
>down is at the Windows login screen, it will lock up.  Bill's solution
>works around that problem by waiting 20 seconds and then continuing if
>the workstation stalls.  Unfortunately, the system command returns a 0
>exit status for success even if shutdown.exe stalls.  Is there any way
>to capture the output from shutdown.exe which is "the device is not
>ready"?  Either that or if the script does wait 20 seconds and fails,
>can I test for that somehow?
>  
>
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