Ahhh, so...

I should be able to fix this by simply moving the use inside of the fork? That doesn't seem to work. I guess even if the use is inside of wakeup() it's still being compiled before forking? Seems I'm a bit confused on what's happening under the covers when forking. Time to do some reading, any suggestions?

or I can move the db connection call out of the "main" section of TEST.pm. That does work.

Cool, thanks for the help perrin.