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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting perl read and write to conf file Post 302329576 by bwhitehd on Monday 29th of June 2009 12:07:27 AM
Old 06-29-2009
Is there a specific reason why you want to obtain the home directory from a configuration file, rather than just obtaining it directly from /etc/passwd or getpwent()? It seems like a lot of extra hoops to jump through to obtain a shell command string from a config file and then have to execute that command just to gather information that could be done directly within perl.

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PPPOE-START(8)						      System Manager's Manual						    PPPOE-START(8)

NAME
pppoe-start - Shell script to bring up a PPPoE link SYNOPSIS
pppoe-start [config_file] pppoe-start interface user [config_file] DESCRIPTION
pppoe-start is a shell script which starts the Roaring Penguin user-space PPPoE client. If you omit config_file, the default file /etc/ppp/pppoe.conf is used. If you supply interface and user, then they override the Ethernet interface and user-name settings in the configuration file. AUTHOR
pppoe-start was written by David F. Skoll <dfs@roaringpenguin.com>. The pppoe home page is http://www.roaringpenguin.com/pppoe/. SEE ALSO
pppoe(8), pppoe-stop(8), pppoe-connect(8), pppd(8), pppoe.conf(5), pppoe-setup(8), pppoe-status(8), pppoe-sniff(8), pppoe-relay(8), pppoe- server(8) 4th Berkeley Distribution 21 February 2000 PPPOE-START(8)
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