Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi

I have created a perl script & running it using Linux machine. I want my script to die when system command is unsuccessful but script is dying even when system command gets executed successfully.
I am using the command below :-

system($cmd) || die "FAILED $!";
print "Hello";

Please help !!

Well, it works for me fine. It prints the "Hello" on stdout

Code:

[ahamed@ahamed test]$ cat run
#!/usr/bin/perl

system($cmd) || die "FAILED $!";
print "Hello\n";

[ahamed@ahamed test]$ ./run
Hello

regards,
Ahamed

Thanks for your reply
Actually I am firing a command on some other machine using remote shell (rsh) , so may be that's why it's not working for me.
Is there any other way to do the same?
I need to do rsh on various machines ....As I get different error messages on different machines so I also can't use the backtick operator to match the exit value of the command