Tom, Yes this works for my problem*your solution is quick and eloquent*thanks*
I would be interested in a reference for PID monitoring for cases where we have more that one *identical* spawned process to consider* Thanks, Steve >>> Tom Phoenix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 4/26/2007 6:01 PM >>> On 4/26/07, Steve Pittman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to spawn a kornshell script Well, nobody's perfect. > - track the PID - and restart the script if the PID is destroyed. Can anyone > point me to a Perl reference for this? Do you really need to track the PID? while (1) { # restart the ksh script system $ksh_command; } Does that do what you need? You could cook up a fancier solution with fork, but I can't immediately see why you'd need to. Cheers! --Tom Phoenix Stonehenge Perl Training -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/