I have more system calls which might be cleaner if I send them as a list. Do I break it into a separate item for each argument? Any need for quotes? Here are the other system calls. They do actually work as they are but I would like to learn how to use the system call the "right" way so to speak.

# Disable autologin
@args = ("defaults delete /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow a
+utoLoginUser");
system(@args);

# exit our test version here before doing anything irrevocable
exit 0;

# Serialize Adobe CS6 Design and Web Premium
@args = ("/Library/AdminToolBox/AdobeSerialization adobe_prtk --tool=V
+olumeSerialize --provfile=/Library/AdminToolBox/prov.xml");
system(@args);

# Bind to Active Directory
@args = ("/Library/AdminToolBox/bind.sh");
system(@args);

# This time we'll use exec since we are restarting anyway
@args = ("/sbin/shutdown -r now");
exec(@args);

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In reply to Re^2: Strange system call failure in OS X by endor-moon
in thread Strange system call failure in OS X by endor-moon

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