I made the changes and still I get the same. The script exits with an error code of 13 and $? reports back with 0. 
@args = ("/test/conf.pl", $cfg_test, $cfg_stat );
    system(@args) == 0 or die "system @args failed: $?";

    $exit_value  = $? >> 8;
    $signal_num  = $? & 127;
    $dumped_core = $? & 128;

print "EXIT VALUE = $exit_value\n";
print "SIGNAL = $signal_num\n";
print "CORE = $dumped_core\n";

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In reply to Re^2: Spawned process exit status by Anonymous Monk
in thread Spawned process exit status by Anonymous Monk

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