You haven't got warnings enabled have you?

You wrote 

  my $rcp_command = "rcp $file $username@$hostname:$destfile";
  #  perl will be interpreting this     ^
  system( $rcp_command );

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Try printing the value of $rcp_command

Next time - enable warnings! Perl will then give you all sorts of errors about that line.

Also I would suggest you always use the array form of system when you don't need to use the shell, eg 

system("rcp", $file, "$username\@$hostname:$destfile") == 0
  or die "Failed to rcp: $?"

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This way you won't get your bacon sliced when shell metacharacters get into $file.

Update: actually you need to be using use strict to see a warning here. You'll see something like Can't use string ("host") as an ARRAY ref while "strict refs" in use.

In reply to Re: Password request on RCP? by ncw
in thread Password request on RCP? by hydo

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