Re^2: fork question

Hi, thanks for your reply. Unfortunately that doesn't seem to be the problem - even increasing sleep to 5 just keeps hanging

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Re^3: fork question by zentara (Cardinal) on Aug 08, 2011 at 17:54 UTC
You might have better luck trying to close or permanently redirect all filehandles. It may even be that you need to close ALL filehandles which you might have open. Maybe in the intervening time since the script was working, and not, you added some code elsewhere which opened some filehandles? See how to close all files `close(STDOUT);close(STDIN);close(STDERR);` [download] or even `open STDIN, "</dev/null"; open STDOUT, ">/dev/null"; open( STDERR, ">>/path/to/logfile");` [download] I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. Old Perl Programmer Haiku ................... flash japh	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re^3: fork question
by zentara (Cardinal) on Aug 08, 2011 at 17:54 UTC

close(STDOUT);close(STDIN);close(STDERR);
[download]

open STDIN, "</dev/null";
open STDOUT, ">/dev/null";
open( STDERR, ">>/path/to/logfile");
[download]

I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth.
Old Perl Programmer Haiku ................... flash japh