Hi edan,

There is just one bit left of what I am trying to do.

I would like to log the output of the command/program that exec is running.

I have tried to do this using the >> redirection method as follows:

$COMMANDLOG is a parameter to turn command logging off or on.
$LOGNAME is the filename of the file to log to

    if ($COMMANDLOG eq "yes"){
      my $LOGTEXT=sprintf("\$%s\n",$cmd);
      log_list($LOGTEXT);
      $cmd=sprintf("%s >> %s",$cmd,$LOGNAME);
    }
    exec($cmd) or die "exec: $!";
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What happens is that there are two processes running from the exec line and the kill will only kill of the parent of the two processes.

If command logging is turned off, then there is only one process from the exec line.

Please could yoe let me know what the best thing to do about this is.

Thank you.

Richard Thomas.

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