Ok, this explains the error level. However, it doesn't 
explain the fact that the command doesn't work from this 
perl script. However, it does work from the cmnd 
line, and also from a little 3 liner (in the examples 
above).

So I know the system call is working, because it can call 
the 3 line perl script. I know the command 'mkfs' is 
working, because I can run the 3 liner, and the command 
executes.

when I run the 'mkfs' command from the large perl script,
 even though ($? >> 8) may return a 0 exit code, the device 
is not created, because there is not XFS filesystem on the
device when I check after running it.

Also, if I grab the output with backticks, there is none.
 (and this is a verbose command, so there should be several 
lines of output when generating the XFS Filesystem).

Any thoughts?

- Nick

In reply to Re: Re: calling an external program, from within a perl script by nick
in thread calling an external program, from within a perl script by nick

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