Ok, so after some more RTFM (thanks!) I ended up trying this option, as it seemed best, however, now when I try to implement Sys::SigAction's "timeout_call" - which gives the following example: 
   use Sys::SigAction qw( timeout_call );
   if ( timeout_call( 5 ,sub { $retval = DoSomething( @args ); } )
   {
      print "DoSomething() timed out\n" ;
   }

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And I implemented this as, e.g.: 
177       eval {
178               if ( timeout_call( 10, sub { $ret = system($mnt_cmd)
+; } )
179               {
180                      logit ("Couldn't get to $smbdest, and couldn'
+t mount it running $mnt_cmd");
181                      return 1;
182               }

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I get the following error: 
[support@hydra script]$ ./cfg_sucker.pl  
syntax error at ./cfg_sucker.pl line 179, near ") 
                        {"
syntax error at ./cfg_sucker.pl line 186, near "}"
Execution of ./cfg_sucker.pl aborted due to compilation errors.

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What am I doing wrong syntactically? I've looged around, and this appears to be kosher?? TIA!

In reply to Re^2: eval problem by muad33b
in thread eval problem by muad33b

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