Hi. Only reason I did not use @ARGV (which I am using now) is that I inherited these scripts and stuck to the original call. No $RUN_NAME is not changing between calls. There is only one weird error I am getting now and that seems to be related to the PID if anything at all.

Thanks for your reply
mndoci

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