On the failing system, what is the output from: 

perl -e 'use forks; print system("ping -c1 localhost"),"\n$?\n";print 
+$! if ($?==-1)'

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I am trying to isolate the modules. This should verifiy that the problem is not in Net::Ping::External. 

perl -e 'print system("ping -c1 localhost"),"\n$?\n";print $! if ($?==
+-1)'
PING localhost.tan.us (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.133 ms

--- localhost.tan.us ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 1 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 0.133/0.133/0.133/0.000 ms
0
0

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In reply to Re: bad ping status with the forks module by starbolin
in thread bad ping status with the forks module by Anonymous Monk

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