Re: adding wtmp script into logwatch

[NetWallah]

It looks like you are invoking your script with 'perl', instead of a shell.

Since your script starts with 'perl -we', the containing file should be executed by a shell.

The other option is to get rid the the "perl -we '", and the terminating "'", then let it be invoked by 'perl'.

FYI - this is what invoking with perl looks like on Windows: (Note the similarity to your messages)

>perl -e "perl -we 'SomeJunk'"

String found where operator expected at -e line 1, near "we 'SomeJunk'
+"
        (Do you need to predeclare we?)
syntax error at -e line 1, near "we 'SomeJunk'"
Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.

[hedkandi]

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.

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

;$recs = "";

[NetWallah]

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'.