Hi Monks, I am newbie to perl and i am trying to create a simple script that checks the status of a process and if the process is not running i want it to execute a simple shell command to start the process backup. I wrote something up, but i don't know exactly how to correct the syntax error I am generating or if the whole structure of it is wrong. Can someone please assist me. Thanks in advance. 
#!/usr/bin/perl

$com1=`ps -eaf | grep bpps | grep -v grep | awk '{print $1}'`;
$com2=`sh -c /export/home/weblogic/bai/bpps.sh start 2 > /dev/null 2>&
+1`

if ($com1 = 'weblogic') {
        print"bpps is running.\n";
} else {
        $com2
}

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