I'm not looping at all, I'm just trying to run another perl script from my perl script. However my process list fills up with the command stored in "$check_env_cmd". The script being called works fine on it's own. I don't get it! Here are what I think are all the relevant parts of my calling script -- it just executes the command in system() hundreds,thousands of times!

my $check_env_cmd="/usr/bin/perl /home/jchase/programming/moodle_rooms
+_sync/sync_mumoodle.pl --modules --blocks";

#Make sure that a few of the critical Moodle Tests pass before loading
+ new db
my $result=system($check_env_cmd);
if ($result){
    print "Environment Check Passed\n";
}else{
    print "Environment Check Failed\n";
    exit 1;
}

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I've also tried using backticks instead of the system() function. Same result. I tried inputting the command straight into system() as well but no joy. I'm sure I'm doing something stupid but I don't understand what -- it seems pretty straightforward. Is there something funny about calling a perl command from a perl command?

In reply to system($cmd) spawns infinitely by kurt2439

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