ok before i rip my hair out.. trash my sun box & turn to drink... can someone point me in the right direction for forking new process.. i've read lots of articles on the site.. but confused with a lot of $pid examples... as I understand it.. 
$pid=fork;
if ($pid==0)
{try and start new process with exec??}

elsif ($pid) 
{do what I want to do with this script??}

else {die because of fork error }

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which I think is right.. but just so confused about where it fits in with my script :-( 
while (1)
    {
        my $time = time();
    print $sock "$data\r\n";
    my @output;
    my $output = join( '', @output );
    while (<$sock>)
    {
    if ( $output = /$match/ ) {
    print STDOUT;
    open(STDOUT, "| $email");
        last;
        }
    else {
    print STDOUT;
    open(STDOUT, "| $logger");
    last;
        }

}

}

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