On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 07:42 -0700, Basith Salman wrote: > > Hi All, > > I was wondering if there is way to suppress the error messages on the stdout > from a perl dbi execute command, basically if I do a > sth->execute() on a command and say the row cannot be updated then > I get a err msg to stdout if there is foreign key violation, I want this error message > to be directed to a log file. >From perldoc DBI: "PrintError" (boolean, inherited) The "PrintError" attribute can be used to force errors to generate warnings (using "warn") in addition to returning error codes in the normal way. When set "on", any method which results in an error occuring will cause the DBI to effectively do a "warn("$class $method failed: $DBI::errstr")" where $class is the driver class and $method is the name of the method which failed. E.g., ... By default, "DBI->connect" sets "PrintError" "on". If desired, the warnings can be caught and processed using a $SIG{__WARN__} handler or modules like CGI::Carp and CGI::ErrorWrap. is this what you want ? it seems that the error messages go to STDERR, not STDOUT. maybe a 2> error.log ? gnari ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend