Note to all: please don't top-post. It makes replying to a reply a pain... Hey, I use Outlook too, but I just move my cursor down to the bottom to start replying :)
> -----Original Message----- > From: Tyler Longren [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 12:22 PM > To: Anders Holm > Cc: Perl List > Subject: RE: Moving on.... > > > Hi Anders, > > I actually tried that already. I thought it'd be the shell way of > solving it also, but it doesn't help any. It just sits there running > the first one. However, when I quit the perl script, the s@h > client is > still running, and I don't want that. :) 1. Why use backticks when you aren't capturing the output? system() is preferred. 2. The "&" business assumes your /bin/sh can do job control. Not all can. 3. You might just want to do the fork and exec yourself. Quite simple really. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
