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Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:26:11 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: Perl system() function works sometimes.
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So it acts up when it tries to write to tmp directory.

Does it still have permission to write to tmp?

Is is possible your space is getting filled up?





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