Taking it a little further and daemonizing, etc...

#!/usr/bin/env perl
use common::sense;
use POSIX qw//;

defined (my $pid = fork()) or die "Can't fork: $!";
exit if $pid;
chdir "$ENV{HOME}" or die "Can't chdir $ENV{HOME}";
POSIX::setsid or die "setsid: $!";
close STDOUT; close STDIN; close STDERR;
open STDIN, '<', "/dev/null" or die "open: $!";
open STDOUT, '>', "/dev/null" or die "open: $!";
open STDERR, '>', "/dev/null" or die "open: $!";

defined ($pid = fork()) or die "Can't fork: $!";
if ($pid) { waitpid $pid, 0; }
else {
eval { 
my @cmd = (
'/usr/X11R6/bin/xterm',
'-e',
'/bin/sh -c "find . | xargs egrep "perl""', #simulate module loading
);
exec @cmd; 
};
warn $@ if $@;
exit 1;
}
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