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It may help your understanding further to realise that [ is actually a binary. See this dialogue from my Debian Lenny system :

mega:~# cd /usr/bin
mega:/usr/bin# ls -l '['
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root...

You mentioned that before you rebooted it you couldn't ping it.

As it is now stuck during boot I would look to its network connectivity.

Modern systems take ages to boot if they cannot "see"...

Having exported it from your your Shell script, within the Perl, invoked from same script you will find that print "$ENV{VAR}\n" is what you want. Export exports a variable into the environment...

The easiest thing is to make a tarball and ftp that from your server so something like

tar cvzf mywebsite.tgz ./www

will do the deed, then ftp off that mywebsite.tgz file.

If you should ever...