Howdy monks. I'm trying to benchmark syslogd on my loghost. I've created a shell script to do this, but I really want to beat the machine up. With Perl, can I use fork to increase the number of messages sent to syslogd (Within limits of course. The current script sends 3000 per minute)? I have never used fork before. As seen below, I am using the logger command to interact with syslogd. Thanks in advance. 
#!/bin/sh

start=`date "+%M:%S"`
x=0

trap 'echo "";
      echo "started at $start";
      echo "finished at `date "+%M:%S"`";
      echo "sent $x messages";
      echo "found `grep TEST_MESSAGE /var/log/messages | wc -l` messag
+es";
      exit' 2

while()
do
     logger -p syslog.notice TEST_MESSAGE_$x
     x=`expr $x + 1`
     echo sent $x
done

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In reply to help me fork by mhearse

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