Yes, i am running fedora core 3 (perl version is 5.8.5 - the latest that is provided as fedora-style rpm).

I think if you read my first post thoroughly you will see what are my critera for determining that the program works. I can only say that i am computing some result and write it the to the database and, as i said several times, when i issue system without & it does not work, otherwise - it works.

I will try to reproduce this behaviour with a small script but when i have time to do it. Of course, if I find it wrong that means it should be a bug? and, of course, i should try with the latest version somehow. What I was eager to know is whether s.o. has experienced smth. like this or can tell me something that i might be missing.

10x for your attention :)