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Thanks for the suggestions. There are a lot of helpful people here! I tried to catch errors like this: ... and I also tried $?. That's the creepy thing - it never even gets that far. It just skips the whole statement altogether. I agree with your thoughts about virtual memory, and in fact this server has had some memory problems in the past. It just seems odd to me that I'm not getting some "out of memory" error (which I've seen before on this server) or even an out-and-out crash of the script. I need something to take to the Unix admins to convince them that there's a problem with the server (there are a number of production databases on there, so they won't reboot or anything like that w/o a good reason). Oh, I forgot to mention that if I take the "sort" statement and put it in a separate Perl script, then run that to sort the file, it works fine. Which again leads me down the virtual memory path. In the short term, maybe I'll have to do the data processing and then the sort in two separate scripts, called up by a shell script or something. That's ugly but I'll bet it will work. Thanks! In reply to Re: Re: vanishing system call
by Anonymous Monk
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