Looks like you forgot the $ sign on the line:

  scythe{ phork("ebbackup", "-l0", "default") } = \&baitKiller;
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Should be:

  $scythe{ phork("ebbackup", "-l0", "default") } = \&baitKiller;

I'm not sure that's exactly your problem but it might help. Btw, use strict probably would've caught that with a more helpful error (bareword not allowed or some such).

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