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Hi netwallah I am using bash shell as root user on a suse linux i replaced perl -we with perl but it still gave me error: 

 String found where operator expected at /usr/share/logwatch/scripts/s
+ervices/my-report line 1, at end of line
        (Do you need to predeclare perl?)
 Warning: Use of "log" without parentheses is ambiguous at /usr/share/
+logwatch/scripts/services/my-report line 1.
 syntax error at /usr/share/logwatch/scripts/services/my-report line 1
+, next token ???
 Search pattern not terminated at /usr/share/logwatch/scripts/services
+/my-report line 1.

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About the terminating " " which one did u meant? is it this one? 

;$recs = "";

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Re^3: adding wtmp script into logwatch
by NetWallah (Canon) on Dec 01, 2011 at 00:45 UTC
    What I meant was : Get rid of the "perl -we" entirely.

    This includes the single quotes after "perl -we", and the matching one at the end of the program.

    The reason for this is that , for some reason, for this script, your system is invoking the perl interpreter automatically, instead of the expected bash (or other) shell. And 'perl' does not like a program content to start with 'perl -we'.

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