perlquestion Kevin_Raymer I have taken your computer feedback to heart and cleaned up my code a little bit - I think this a lot more perl like and pretty technical.<br> <br> <code> #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; system "netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpdbjobs -report -all_columns\n"; mail "xxxxxx@xxxxx.com </code> <br> but still I get:<br> <br> <code> Bareword "com" not allowed while "strict subs" in use at ./nb.pl line 7.<br> Unquoted string "com" may clash with future reserved word at ./nb.pl line 7.<br> Execution of ./nb.pl aborted due to compilation errors. <br> </code> I had a real email address in there of course. This is really a challange it reminds me of the days of hacking AOL! <br> KR