Pipe Event will not run a script set to use Perl

[zostay]

The environment for Adium may be a little too squeaky clean or something. If I write a script like this:

#!/usr/bin/perl
system('echo foo >> /tmp/adium-speak-chat.log');

I never get output. I got similar results when I tried the sample Ruby script from jcs' blog.

I think this is because the locale environment is missing or something when it runs, but without any built-in logging it's difficult to tell. The only reason I can even suspect the locale is because when I use bash to run a Perl script, I can get it to work by adding

export LC_ALL=en_US.utf-8
export LC_MESSAGES=en_US.utf-8
export LANG=en_US.utf-8

to the script before executing Perl. I don't know what would be a good resolution to this issue, but logging would be a start so I can at least no why with more accuracy.

[jcs]

i think this is because stdout and stderr get closed right away. this might get fixed when it's changed to send stdout and stderr to adium's debug log.