Re: Not Quite perl...

[Limbic~Region]

Anonymous Monk,
While smitz has already pointed out you can do:

cat /root/james >> /var/mail/james

You can also do this with Perl.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
open (MBOX1,"/root/james") or die "unable to open mailbox : $!";
open (MBOX2,">>/var/mail/james") or die "unable to append to mailbox :
+ $!";
select MBOX2;
while (<MBOX1>) {
    print;
}

Of course - don't do this - you would be in a race condition. If any other process were writing to the second mailbox, information would become inter-leaved. Yes, there is locking, but I do not believe Sendmail respects locks on mailboxes.

You could always check CPAN - Mail::Box::Mbox and Mail::Box were both updated yesterday 8 May 03.

Cheers - L~R