So what is the difference between your child process's environment and your shell process's environment? Are you running this script via your shell prompt, or as, say, a CGI script? If the latter, there are tons of different things we can look at, like your PATH, user/ownerships, permissions, etc. If it's something like this: 
$ cat script.pl
system("rcp file host:/tmp");
$ rcp file host:/tmp
$ perl script.pl
$

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(i.e. both *appeared* to work from this point of view, but in reality, the first rcp command succeeded in producing a file but the second did not), then we probably have a problem.

If your script does not look as simple as the one above, consider reducing it to its simplest components that still reproduce your problem, then give us as much detail about the differences in the way you're running each script and your environment.

In reply to RE: RE: Re: Failure with rcp by Fastolfe
in thread Failure with rcp by magnus

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