The title pretty much describes what I am seeing. Actually, the return from $? is 0. I read over this which had made me think that $? would hold more info than the $! that I had been using, but to no avail.

I'm doing a pretty simple rcs checkout, move a file over another and then checking back in:

my $checkout = "co -q -l";
my $checkin = "ci -u -q -m\"Modification of $domain\"";

## check out file from rcs
system("$checkout $revdns")
  or warn "Problems with checking out $revdns : $!\n";

## move the tmp file into its place
move("$tmp_revdns","$revdns")
  or warn "Problems moving $tmp_revdns to $revdns : $!\n";

## check the new file into rcs
system("$checkin $revdns")
  or warn "Problems with checking in $revdns : $?\n";

print "inverse dns records created!\n";

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I get the warn statement with the first system call. Any ideas on why I would receive this?

humbly -c

In reply to Illegal Seek from system() with no output from $? by c

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