I'm not sure how you implemented this.. Some code would help clear things up..

But if you used perl's open with a pipe for recover, the open command can only 
do either input or output, not both simultaneously.

i.e. as much as we'd like this to work:

$pid = open(HANDLE, "|cmd args|");

it doesn't work as you would hope.

See http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/open.html for further information, there 
are other utilities that do this if that's the behavior you are looking for. 
Although I haven't used it in a long time (usually found another way around 
it), open2 might provide what you are looking for.

Good luck,
Will Aymond

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Subject: [Networker] capture recover command output


I am working on a perl script to help automate the recover command.
We do full backups of our lotus notes everyday. We hold 2 weeks of daily 
backups and 12 weeks of weekly backups. From time to time, we are required to 
restore every possible backup of someones email. I already wrote the script to 
automate the restores. However, I am trying to capture the output of the 
command line recover command and send it to a file. This way if someone leaves 
a restore going over night they can have a restore report when they come in the 
morning. No matter which way i try to capture the output, I cant seem to get it 
to the file. Does anyone have any kind of insight on this problem. Or has 
anyone even tryed this before? Thanks

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