I have spent a couple of hours scouring google and PerlMonks to no avail. Sorry if this seems like a noob question.

I am just trying to run Bugzilla's install-module.pl on a RHEL 5 linux box, but the script doesn't do anything. I type in the command, hit enter, and nothing happens. No errors, no warnings, no screen output, and I don't even get my command prompt back (I have to hit ctrl+c.) Yesterday the script was working fine, so I think I must have a hung perl process getting in the way. I've looked at the 'top' output, but I don't see anything suspicious in there. I've also scoured the 'ps' process list (and even grepped for 'install' or 'perl'), but I can't find any hung processes in there either. I even waited for an hour or two to see if something would eventually happen, but still nothing.

How can I see any old still running perl scripts, and kill them (assuming that is the problem here?)

Here is the command I'm running:
./install-module.pl --all

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In reply to Bugzilla's install-module.pl hangs by yacoubean

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