How many times is PerlChildInitHandler suposed to be called on child startup? On my server startup (under httpd -X as well) I see two calls to it. I have wrapped my code so it does not do the initailization twice now but this kind of caught me by suprise. With a carp in my anonymous handler I see the following. PerlChildInitHandler called. at /dev/null line 0 First connect site eSite=HASH(0x81f73c4). PerlChildInitHandler called. DynaLoader::__ANON__('Apache=SCALAR(0x8507740)') called at /dev/null line 0 eval {...} called at /dev/null line 0 First connect site eSite=HASH(0x8546018). -- Owen