Perl Trouble Question
Ralph Mellor
ralph at dimp.com
Thu Nov 11 20:43:47 CST 1999
is $wrappedKey binary? if so, you might need to set binmode.
does this stuff work when done directly from a shell?
Gregory Stooksberry wrote:
>
> Need to get this working by tomorrow on an NT4 Machine, Perl Version 5.004
> I've tracked it to this part of the code.....
>
> open ( CRYPT, "| $MCKencrypt >$tempfile" ) || die "Couldn't open
> tempfile: $!";
>
> ...Snip comments....
>
> print CRYPT ("$wrappedKey\r\n");
> print CRYPT ($message);
> print CRYPT ("\r\n"); # force a flush
> close ( CRYPT ) || die "Couldn't close tempfile: $!";
>
> The temp file is opened but nothing is ever written to it. Then the code
> fails at the
> close '(CRYPT)' line with error "The Syntax of the command is incorrect".
> Both $wrappedKey and $message are ok. $MCKencrypt is an external encryption
> executable.
>
> Any obvious mistakes? Debugging suggestions?
>
> PS - This is part of a commercial package we just bought.
>
> Gregory Stooksberry
> Systems Administrator
> Colorsmart.com
> greg at colorsmart.com
>
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