In the spirit of helping improve programming skills, please accept these minor criticisms:

• our $F; is not being used, and is not necessary. What IS being used it my @F...
• You are separating the declaration and assignment of @args. Proficient perl programmers would combine these as in
  my @args = ("cciss_vol_status /dev/ciss0 > checkstatres.txt");
• You are not checking to see if your system call was successful. Typical use is :
  system ... or die ....

Happy programming!

You could also consider the Net::SMTP (or Mail::SendEasy) modules as an alternative to using system calls to send mail.

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