Firstly find the program that you're running and provide the full path to it.

If you're in +n.x you can find this with: 

which nzbget

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let's say it tells you it's in /usr/local/bin/nzbget you would modify your code to be: 

    my @args = ("/usr/local/bin/nzbget", $item);
    system(@args) == 0
        or die "Could not run '@args' ($?): $!\n";

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The $! is *very* useful to help you here because it will tell you the system error that is being thrown to tell you why the command is failing.

The ($?) will show you the return code that the program failed with (in case there was nothing useful in $!).

Watch out for the fact that system is a little different from other functions that you expect to return 1 on success such as open: 

my $args = "/usr/local/bin/nzbget $item"
open("$args |") || die "Can't run '$args': $!\n";

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If you read system you will see that this is based around the fact that a program exiting successfully normally returns 0 (and system() does special magic on the return code to give you more useful info wrapped up in one number)

In reply to Re: "System" will not run an executable by serf
in thread "System" will not run an executable by redjac

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