[check_postgres] Problem with perl 5.8.0

[Greg Sabino Mullane]

On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:19:36 +0100
Chris Butler <chrisb at zedcore.com> wrote:

> Our monitoring server is running CentOS 3.9, which has perl version
> 5.8.0. The latest version of check_postgres.pl fails to run on this
> version of perl, with the following error:
> 
>     Bareword "STDERR" not allowed while "strict subs" in use at
> check_postgres.pl line 919. Execution of check_postgres.pl aborted due
> to compilation errors.
> 
> Line 919 is the following:
> 
> 	open my $oldstderr, '>&', STDERR or ndie "Could not dupe
> STDERR\n";
> 
> To fix, I replaced that with:
> 
> 	open my $oldstderr, '>&', \*STDERR or ndie "Could not dupe
> STDERR\n";
> 


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Greg Sabino Mullane greg at endpoint.com
End Point Corporation 610-983-9073
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