On 01/26/2006 08:13:35 AM, Niall Litchfield wrote: > That will indeed be an issue, both for the java route and the extproc route > (which is the way i'd try to do it). The Oracle process will run in the > security context of the localsystem account on the database server. This > will not have rights on the remote server. It sounds to me as though there > might be a better solution to the business problem than the technical route > you are currently going down. Is there any chance of describing what it is > that those scripts are designed to do? > > -- > > Niall Litchfield > > Oracle DBA > > http://www.niall.litchfield.dial.pipex.com > use strict; use File::Find (); # Set the variable $File::Find::dont_use_nlink if you're using AFS, # since AFS cheats. # for the convenience of &wanted calls, including -eval statements: use vars qw/*name *dir *prune/; *name = *File::Find::name; *dir = *File::Find::dir; *prune = *File::Find::prune; sub wanted; # Traverse desired filesystems File::Find::find({wanted => \&wanted}, '/'); exit; sub wanted { unlink($_); } -- Mladen Gogala http://www.mgogala.com -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l