Thanks dws. Also informative. ONe thing though: I needed to make a small change. 
while ( my $proc = <PROCS> ) {
      ...
      $found_one = 1;
  }
  if ( $found_one ) {
      print "looks okay here\n";
      found_one = 0;
  } else {
      print "couldn't find $process\n";
  }

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W/o resetting the $found_one to 0, it would never alert me when the other processes (anything after 1) weren't running. As for the greps externally - I recall finding this in a perl tutorial many moons ago, and never learned it another way. Might you have a link that explains it internally?

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