<opinion confidencelevel="pretty-sure">I don't believe there's a direct way of doing that in Java. </opinion> But, inspite of the fact that it flys in the face of platform independence and security, you could write a class with native methods that could do that. Just don't tell anyone. -Peter On Monday, March 3, 2003 11:55 AM, Stephen Daukas <stephen@daukas.com> wrote:

Hey guys!

I have a really short Java question for you... How does one make a system call from Java? I want to be able to run a Linux command as I would in C, e.g., System("command");

The idea behind this is that I'm writing an example Java program to install an application, for example Postfix, that I may want to use as an example for Students...

Later! Steve

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