I KNOW this is the wrong way to do it and I am getting errors on the the last if statement. Can someone help me convert the shell script to perl code? The process ONLY dies with kill 9. Randal said to use +9.

#!usr/local/bin/perl

use strict;

# kill all silver stream processes
my @processes=`ps -ef | grep ThingIwant | awk \'{ print \$2 }\'`;

foreach (@processes) {
`kill -9 $_` && print "Process $_ killed!";
}

# copy the log file and create a new one
`cp /local/webserver/bin/log /local/home/admin/temp_log_copy` && print
+ "performing the copy";

if (-e "/local/home/admin/temp_log_copy" && print "checking the existe
+nce of log") {
chdir "/local/webserver/bin/";
`rm log` && print "log deleted\n";
`touch log` && print "new log created\n";
`chmod 644 log` && print "log rights changed\n";
`chown root log` && print "changed owner to root\n";
`chgrp other log` && print "changed the group to other\n";
`/bin/sh /local/webserver/bin/startserver.sh` && print "The server is 
+back up";
}

if (-e "/local/home/admin/log"`date '+%m%d%y'|sed s/\ /_/g`"_box_50  &
+& print "checking the existence of log") {
mv /local/home/admin/temp_log_copy  /local/home/admin/log"`date '+%m%d
+%y'|sed s/\ /_/g`"_box_50a;
} else {
mv /local/home/admin/temp_log_copy  /local/home/admin/log"`date '+%m%d
+%y'|sed s/\ /_/g`"_box_50;
}

exit;

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