well the way i've thought it up, the scripts aren't supposed to close at all.. they:
print "go wash your car";
for (;;){
sleep 1209600;
print "go wash your car";
}
#instead of "go wash your car", its `cat sched.lst`
and there is 4 scripts like this that get kicked off within the main script; if possible i want to execute simulatanously.