In regard to: Re: [Networker] Can't get nsradmin to work via Perl script,...:

Well, getting rid of the 'waitpid' command fixed its little wagon, and no, I have no idea why I was waiting.

Because that's probably what the example you looked at did, since it's
the right thing to do in a longer-running process.  Without it, in a
longer-running process you'll almost certainly end up with zombies.

As Darren correctly pointed out, the problem wasn't the waitpid, is was
that you were calling waitpid before you were done interacting with the
child.  The waitpid() should be after a close(RDRFH), which would be after
your array slurp.

Tim

   close (WTRFH);

waitpid($pid, 0);

Why are you waiting on a process that you're not done interacting with?
For this short of a program, you probably shouldn't wait on it at all.
While I'd expect problems with a longer program, I wouldn't think that
what you're doing would be affected.  Still I'd get rid of that line.

# get the results.
my @output = <RDRFH>;

print @output;

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