Problem is that i get zombies..... The main Program must run because it runs as a daemon so i can't exit it to cleanup my zombie prozesses........ ps aux |grep Z USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND root 307 0.0 0.0 0 0 pts/1 Z+ 19:27 0:00 a2.pl <defunct> root 319 0.0 0.0 0 0 pts/1 Z+ 19:27 0:00 a2.pl <defunct> root 324 0.0 0.0 0 0 pts/1 Z+ 19:28 0:00 a2.pl <defunct> root 334 0.0 0.0 0 0 pts/1 Z+ 19:28 0:00 a2.pl <defunct> root 353 0.1 0.0 0 0 pts/1 Z+ 19:28 0:00 a2.pl <defunct> root 381 0.0 0.0 0 0 pts/1 Z+ 19:28 0:00 a2.pl <defunct> root 404 0.2 0.0 0 0 pts/1 Z+ 19:28 0:00 a2.pl <defunct> root 421 0.0 0.0 9852 872 pts/2 S+ 19:28 0:00 grep Z 

Main Perl String
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use warnings;
use IPC::Cmd qw[can_run run run_forked];

my $timeout = 1;
my $erg;
my $cmd='/home/a2.pl';
while(1){
        if( scalar run( command => $cmd, verbose => 0, buffer => \$erg
+, timeout => $timeout )){
                print 'success:'.$erg."\n";
        }else{
                if(!$erg){
                        $erg='ERROR';
                }

                print 'timeout cmd:'.$cmd.' ergr='.$erg."\n";
        }
   sleep(5);
}
1;

/home/a2.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl
print 10000;
#print 'or some text.....';
1;

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