Worse yet, after a period of several minutes the pings started coming more frequently that once per minute.

If ip-address.txt contains more than one host/address, there's no pause between them because there's no sleep() in the foreach $host (@ip) loop. There's only a pause after the whole list has been processed.

My Win2K laptop quit responding to commands, and I had to yank the battery to reboot. Attached are the code and the log file that shows the misbehavior.

You can usually force computers to shut down by holding the power button for 4-6 seconds. It's probably a friendlier option than removing the battery.

That's all I have time for right now. I hope it helps.

In reply to Re: Extremely odd behavior with net::ping and fork by ikegami
in thread Extremely odd behavior with net::ping and fork by wolfger

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