>>>>> "Parker" == Parker Richard-A19798 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...]
Parker> What happens is that for no particular reason that I can find, Parker> the program dies. Parker> What do I put in to find out what killed it or what it died from? I have no idea, but I thought this code is more conventional: open KERNFIFO, "/dev/log.fifo" or die "Cannot open file, $!\n"; while ( my $line = <KERNFIFO> ) { print "$line"; } Parker> #!/usr/bin/perl Parker> open (KERNFIFO, "cat /dev/log.fifo |"); Parker> while ( <KERNFIFO> ) { [...] -- Claude