Hi. I'll make this short and sweet. Doing ps -ef to check for some processes running on a machine. when they're running, there's no problem. When the proc ISN'T running (which is what I want to know) I'm getting nothing. Basically doing this. 
use strict;
my @procs = qw|mozilla evolution|;

foreach my $process(@procs) {
    open ( PROCS, "ps -ef |grep $process |grep -v grep|" ) or die "Cou
+ldn't open procs $!";
    while ( my $proc = <PROCS> ) {
        chomp $proc;
         if ( defined( $proc ) ) {
            print "looks okay here\n";
        } else {
              print "couldn't find $process - you're screwed\n";
        }
    }
}

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To test this, I'll change Mozilla to Gozilla in the array assignemnt at the top. Since when it loops through, running ps, grepping for Gozilla, it'll get nothing - is that not undefined in this case? In short, if I run the above, grepping for procs that don't exist, I get nothing in standard output. If I'm totally off on that, can someone point me into the direction I need to go in to check for when something WON'T be there?

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