Fellow monks, I hope you can help me. The code below spawns off child processes and things are done at the child level. My first attempt was to have the child pass back variables to the parent, but that didn't go so well. I think this is (have the child do everything) the best way to handle it. But just for learning purposes how do I retain variables after the child exit? Thanks in advance.

#!/usr/bin/perl -W

use scr_rsh;

my @properties = ("run","conf");
my $cmd_run = "ps -ef|grep newmatch | grep \"    1 \"|wc -l";
my $cmd_conf = "wc -l /usr/local/multiplex.conf";
my ($pid,@pid);

my $passwd = ask;
print "\n";

# hash of hashes
our $domatch = {};      # Hash of Hashes

# set default values of HoH
for(my $key1 = 0; $key1 <= $#ARGV; $key1++) {
        foreach my $key2 (@properties) {
                my $domatch = {
                        $ARGV[$key1 ] => {$key2=>'0'}
                };
        }
}
# Fork processes
for($key1=0, $i = 1; ($i <= 2) && ($key1 <= $#ARGV); $i++,$key1++) {
        $pid=fork();
        push @pids, $pid;
        if($pid == 0) {
                #Child  Process
                $domatch->{$ARGV[$key1]}->{"conf"} =  &get_proc_run($p
+asswd,$ARGV[$key1]);
                $domatch->{$ARGV[$key1]}->{"run"} =  &get_proc_conf($p
+asswd,$ARGV[$key1]);
                &prt_result($ARGV[$key1]);
                exit(0);
        }
        if("$i" == "2") {
                $i=0;
        }
}

foreach my $childpid (@pids) {
        waitpid($childpid,0);
}
#--------------------------------------------
# Beging Sub-Routines
#--------------------------------------------
sub prt_result {
        my $host = shift;
        if( $domatch->{$host}->{run} eq $domatch->{$host}->{conf} ) {
                print "$host green: $domatch->{ $host }->{conf}/$domat
+ch->{ $host }->{run}\n";
        } else {
                print "$host red: $domatch->{ $host }->{conf}/$domatch
+->{ $host }->{run}\n";
        }
}

sub get_proc_conf {
        my $passwd = shift;
        my $host = shift;

        # Get number of newmatch configured to be run on each server
        my $line = scr_remote("$passwd", "$cmd_conf", "$host");
        chomp($line);
        my($junk,$wc) = split(/\s+/,$line);
        $wc =~ s/\s//g;         # string spaces in a string
        #$domatch->{$host}->{"conf"} = "$wc";
        return $wc;
}sub get_proc_run {
        my $passwd = shift;
        my $host = shift;

        # Get PPID of newmatch only
        my $line = scr_remote("$passwd", "$cmd_run", "$host");
        chomp($line);
        $line =~ s/\s//g;       # string spaces in a string
        #$domatch->{$host}->{"run"} =  "$line";
        return $line;
}
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Edit kudra, 2001-11-23 Added additional desc to title

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