Hello gracious monks,

I am writing a script using the system() function in perl. When I run the script I get the following output: 
bash-2.05# ./ch_sunflare-beam.pl
You are on sunflare

Which ACLs would you like to apply to /mkt/sbo/inbound
rwx
You said rwx
/mkt/sbo/inbound
1: No such file or directory
bash-2.05#

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The directory certainly exists. If you would please look at my code and tell me where I have go awry: 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

my @users = qw(ux43 ux95 ux61 ux10 ux78 vx14 ux26 vx20);
my $users;
my @dirs_sunflarebeam = "/mkt/sbo/inbound";
my $hostname = `hostname`;
print "You are on $hostname\n";
print "Which ACLs would you like to apply to @dirs_sunflarebeam\n";
my $ans = <STDIN>;
chomp $ans;
print "You said $ans\n";
my @args = ("setfacl", "-m");
foreach my $dirs(@dirs_sunflarebeam){
print "$dirs\n";               <==this prints ok however the $dirs fai
+ls below with the message posted above:
        system(@args, "u:$users[0]:$ans", "$dirs") == 0
                or die "system @args failed $?";
#       system(@args, "u:$users[3]:$ans", $dirs) == 0
#               or die "system @args failed $?";
}

my $dir = @dirs_sunflarebeam;
#print "$dirs\n";
system("getfacl", "$dir");

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Pleae let me know where my mistake is.
Thanks!
@gwadej
Ok my mistake. I misread where that error was coming from. However I still do not change the ACLs on the directory when I run the script: 
bash-2.05# getfacl /mkt/sbo/inbound

# file: /mkt/sbo/inbound
# owner: mkt
# group: mkt
user::rwx
user:ux10:rwx            #effective:rwx
user:ux438:rwx                #effective:rwx
user:pdev:rwx         #effective:rwx
group::rwx              #effective:rwx
mask:rwx
other:rwx
bash-2.05#

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In reply to Correct way to use system()? by xjlittle

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