Sorry its not a perl Issue, I appriecate the help though. I checked the contents of the mtab file and it appears everything is set to rw

more mtab
/dev/hda5 / ext3 rw 0 0
none /proc proc rw 0 0
/dev/hda1 /boot ext3 rw 0 0
/dev/hda8 /home ext3 rw,grpquota 0 0
/dev/hda6 /usr ext3 rw 0 0
/dev/hda7 /var ext3 rw,usrquota 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts rw,gid=5,mode=620 0 0


What I am needing to do is run my perl script indefinatly that intercepts emails coming in, so if anyone knows another method to do that other than installing the Proc::Daemon module I am open to that as well.