Hi, $dbh does exist & was created earlier, it definately works as I retrieve data via it earlier in the script, if I replace the following code

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 }
$pm->wait_all_children;

 print "Connecting for insert into jobs_run: JOBNO:$mjobno\n";

 my $sql4 = qq { insert into jobs_run (jobname, datein, howmany, error
+mesg)
        values ( 'attachmailer', sysdate, $scount, 'JOBNO:$mjobno')} |
+| warn "Error: $!\n";
 print "preparing Query";
 my $sth4 = $dbh->prepare( $sql4 ) || warn "Prepare Error: $!\n";
 print "executing Query";
 $sth4->execute() || warn "Execute Error: $!\n";

print "Done";
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with simple

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print "Preparing Query";
print "Hello World\n";
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it won't print "Hello World" or anything other command after that, but it will print "Preparing Query" which ||'s nothing. It's definately related to the ForkManager stuff, because if I comment it all out, everything works fine (except for not using the ForkManager stuff)