I am not sure you gave us all the pieces of this puzzle. I see one error, and I would
like to make a suggestion.
1) As a previous reply implied, you need to back slash the space in Program Files.
2) The line
Can't spawn "cmd.exe": No such file or directory at c:\projects\runbatch.pl line 4.
is stating that whatever line 4 of c:\projects\runbatch.pl is trying to get cmd.exe
to execute is not there.

Try this
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
my $prog = "c:\\program\ files\\agent\\agent.bat";
if (system("$prog")) {
print("Cannot system $prog:$!:\n");
} else {
print("Success\n");
}

If this does not work, please let us know what the said line 4 is.

In reply to Re: system command can't spawn cmd.exe by Anonymous Monk
in thread system command can't spawn cmd.exe by cormanaz

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