I don't think it forks off any persistent children. I've my main script, it executes a child process, and regains control after the process is done executing. So, there should only one active child process at a time.

I'm running this in tcsh.

I don't get any error messages. The script just continues on, but I know there's a problem because the file the system() command was supposed to generate doesn't appear.

Anyway I can capture the errors? Sorry, I'm way noob. Please be patient with me