Hi All,

I have been looking at a problem we have within our firm. We copy a large number of log files from our servers around the country. Currently we run a file copy file based on a list of servers. The problem we have comes when it comes to a server with a large log file and we have to wait for it to copy before it can move onto another server and start copying. I have looked at trying to run the copyfile program multiple times and so it copies 5 log file at one time. So when 1 of the 5 instances is complete it adds another instance so i and always copying data.

I have only just started looking at fork and have found some code that i have changed a bit but i cannot get it to change the variables sent to each process. I keep getting the same varibles sent and dont know why. Any idea. Code below.

@list=(srv1,srv2,srv3,srv3)


for (1 .. $list_count) {
    print "Launching: Process $_$/";
    defined(my $cpid = fork) or warn $! and next;
    $kid{$cpid} = undef, next if $cpid;
    my($server, $account, $path) = split /\t/,$list[$c];
    $c++;
  my $proc = "$curdir"."program.exe $server".">$server.log";
  exec $proc;
  exit 0;
}

delete $kid{wait()} while %kid;

print "Done...$/";

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Edited by planetscape - added code tags

In reply to Running a program mulitple times with different Variables by damo666

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