### BEGINING OF FORK
#
my $kidpid;
my $parentpid = $$;

if (!defined($kidpid = fork())) {
        # fork returned undef, so failed
        print "cannot fork: $!";
}
elsif ($kidpid == 0) {
        sleep(3600);
        my ($date, $Stime, $Ctime, $J, $Temp1, $Temp2, $bpdbjobs);
        my (@JOBID, @PIDS, @times, @bpdbLines);

        while(1) {
                ### parsing the input
                $bpdbjobs =  `$BPDBJOBS | grep Active | grep -v PID`;
                @bpdbLines = split /\n/, $bpdbjobs;

                for($J = 0; $J < @bpdbLines; $J++) {
                        $bpdbLines[$J] = $bpdbLines[$J] . "\n";
                        $bpdbLines[$J] =~ /^(\d+)\s/;
                        $JOBID[$J] = $1;
                        $bpdbLines[$J] =~ /\s(\d+)$/;
                        $PIDS[$J] = $1;
                        if( $PID[$J] == $parentpid) {
                                $PIDS[$J]=undef;
                                $JOBID[$J]=undef;
                                $J--;
                        }
                }
                for( $J = 0; $J < @PIDS ; $J++) { #get the time the job started
                        chomp ($times[$J] = `/bp/bin/bpps | grep $PIDS[$J] | /usr/local/bin/perl -lane 'print \$F[4]'`);
                        $times[$j]=parsedate($times[$j]);
                }

                ### time checks
                $Ctime = time;
                for($J = 0; $J < @PIDS; $J++) {
                        $Temp1 = $Ctime - $times[$j];
                        if($Temp1 > 7200) {
                                $Temp2 = "/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpdbjobs -cancel $JOBID[$J]"; #cancel if job runs longer than
2 hours
                                print "$Temp2\n";
                                system($Temp2);
                                unless (open (todayHungClientsLogP, ">>$HungClientsLog")) {
                                        print (" HungClients: unable to open output <$HungClientsLog>\n");
                                }
                                else {
                                        # print (todayHungClientsLogP " Running Time = $Temp1   >>");
                                        print (todayHungClientsLogP "$Temp2\n");
                                        close (todayHungClientsLogP);
                                }
                        }
                }

                sleep(1800);
                $alive = `/bin/ps -ef | grep $parentpid | grep -v grep`;
                unless($alive ne "") {
                        exit;
                }
        }
}
else {
        #do the rest of the script here.