Is it possible i can capture whether my 'mnblookup' call to a client Windows PC succeeded or failed ? I have this line of code - 
open (NMBLOOKUP, "|nmblookup -r -T $client");
 select NMBLOOKUP;
 close NMBLOOKUP;

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where $client is the NETBIOS name of the PC on the network. I've tried using $? after the 'close' statement like so - my $exit = $?; but i can't get it to return anything other than zero, regardless of whether 'nmblookup' gets a positive or negative response. (It'll get a negative response if the PC isn't active for example). This tells me i'm not capturing the exit status of the process i want to capture, only that the above code itself has successfully executed. Anyone got any experience of this ?

Edit by tye: add CODE tags

In reply to capturing exit status of a process by blackrose

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