On Friday 27 September 2002 22:15, Donaldson, Mark wrote:
> No, there's a batch file version, usually <scriptname>.bat (ie:
> bpend_notify.bat) for Windows.
>
> If you want to do perl or something, it has to have the same name but you
> can "#!/bin/perl" or whatever on the first line to call the perl
> interpreter.
>
> Is this what you mean?
>
> -M

Sorry, the thought just popped into my head, and I shot the question off!

Yes, that's exactly what I meant. In other words, for instance on a Solaris 
box, bpend_notify or backup_exit_notify *could* be written in Perl?

That's great news for me, as my Perl is much sharper than my shell =).

--Steve



>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steven L. Sesar [mailto:ssesar AT rcn DOT com]
> Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 8:05 PM
> To: Donaldson, Mark; 'Egan, Michael'
> Cc: Veritasbu (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] RE: [NBUADV-L] Failed Job Notification
>
>
> Question: Must bpend_notify, et al. be written in shell?
>
> On Friday 27 September 2002 12:08, Donaldson, Mark wrote:
> >       CLIENT=$1
> >         CLASS=$2
> >      SCHEDULE=$3
> > SCHEDULE_TYPE=$4
> >        STATUS=$5
> >        STREAM=$6