As I should have done to start with, I went back and put a little debug line in my script within the sub, and as you suspected, it's running the sub, but NOT executing all the way through like it was when I wasn't forking it with this module (pun intended). The sub is supposed to kick off several nmap scans, save the output to different files per network, etc. and it simply isn't doing it. The issue ISN'T what I thought it was.. for some reason, it appears the fork mgr runs the parts of the sub it feels like running, and chunks the rest.. I have it set to do 8 threads, and each thread should take a while, but it rips through a list of 20 networks instantly, prints them all out, and does nothing further, so I guess I gotta figure out what's different. I appreciate your help. UPDATE: Well, as it turns out, I had hosed the path to nmap in my subroutine, and Perl wasn't telling me. I'm thinking I GOTTA learn how to use the debugger.

In reply to Re^4: Calling a sub routine from an object by carric
in thread Calling a sub routine from an object by carric

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