Fellow monks,

I am writing a script that determines backups that needs to be done on seperate servers. After certain crteria was met it needs to execute the backup software and go on to the next server. The backup should run simultaniously but I can't seem to find a way to execute the backup.pl and go on with the script.

I've written and example of what the script should do in the following three test scripts

Altough the tests are written in windows Perl the script will run on Linux

You will find in the exec command in example below the script runs the test2.pl but not the test3.pl

Please Help

test.pl

#!c:\perl\bin

eval{exec("test2.pl");};
eval{exec("test3.pl");};

print "done\n\n";

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test2.pl

#!c:\perl\bin
sleep(10);
open(TEST,">test.log");
print TEST "hello world\n";
close TEST;

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test3.pl

#!c:\perl\bin
sleep(10);
open(TEST,">test2.log");
print TEST "Hello World\n";
close TEST;

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In reply to execute secondary script not waiting for a result and continue with script by PugSA

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