Since I don't have a working fork, this code will spawn a process in the background on win32. It is specifically setup to run one of my perl scripts with a few different config files and without a dos window. I drop this in my startup folder and it kicks them off with a 2 second delay between them (the spawned script monitors databases, I don't want to pound the machine with 5 connections all at once...) 

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use Win32::Process;
use Win32;

my $sleep  = shift || 2;
my $pl     = "traydb.pl";
my $pldir  = "C:\\perl\\code\\TrayDb\\";
my @plargs = ('-configfile bdprod.cfg',
              '-configfile fdprod.cfg',
              '-configfile vdprod.cfg',
              '-configfile fddvlp.cfg',
              '-configfile bddvlp.cfg');

sub ErrorReport{
    print Win32::FormatMessage( Win32::GetLastError() );
}

sub SpawnTrayDb {
    my $ProcessObj = shift;
    my $pl = shift;
    my $plargs = shift;
    Win32::Process::Create($ProcessObj,
    "c:\\perl\\bin\\perl.exe",
    "perl $pl $plargs",
    0,
    DETACHED_PROCESS, 
    $pldir)|| die ErrorReport();
}

foreach (@plargs) {
    print "$pl $_\n";
    sleep $sleep;
    SpawnTrayDb(my $po, $pl, $_);
}

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In reply to They didn't give me a fork so I have to eat with a spawn. by elwarren

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