I have a bit of code for a cron script. Its pretty obvious what its doing.

What I can't figure out is, why it won't die. I've even used die "blah"; after the last else conditional. I've put exit; everywhere I can think of. I've even defined subroutines for each function after the if does its magik.

Any ideas about what I could do to make this thing die?

I'm sure once cron finishes its work, it would kill the remaining process, but I just want to make sure it exits cleanly. 

#!/usr/bin/perl -wT
use strict;

$ENV{PATH} = 
'/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin';

my $ircd = `ps -u me | grep ircd`;
my $services = `ps -u me | grep wrecked`;

if ($ircd) {  print "Ircd is up!\n"; } 

else { 

   print "Starting Ircd......\n";
   `sudo -u dsirc /home/me/Unreal3.1.4/src/ircd`;

}

if ($services) {  print "Services are up!\n"; } 

else { 

   print "Starting Services......\n";
   `sudo -u dsirc /home/me/services/wrecked`;

}

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In reply to Why won't it die?? by Anonymous Monk

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