note BazB <p> [broquaint], thanks.<br> I am aware of [CPAN://Parallel::ForkManager], but I figured it wasn't worth the grief of installing an extra module for a relatively small amount of code. </p> <p> Of course, that was before I realised my code wasn't playing nice... </p> <p><b>Update:</b> I've tried [broquaint]'s suggestion of [CPAN://Parallel::ForkManager], and that suffers from the same problem on Solaris (5.6.1 and 5.8.4), but is fine on Linux. </p> <p><b>Update 2:</b> I tried another tactic - don't read the configuration file and fork children in a single loop.<br> Instead, I open and read the configuration file and store the information in an array, then iterate over the array using <code>foreach</code>, kicking off children and reaping as before.<br> This approach does work correctly, but still doesn't reveal why the original code fails. </p> <!-- Node text goes above. Div tags should contain sig only --> <div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-127547"> <hr /> <font size=1> <p align=right>If the information in this post is inaccurate, or just plain wrong, don't just downvote - please post explaining what's wrong.<br> That way everyone learns.</p> </font> </div></div> 369584 369587