Sorry to waste bandwidth but I've found the problem. Mandrake's msec at level 4 changed permissions on /proc so that it was inaccessible.
Brian > Embperl works for me too except for system calls like uptime below: > > [- @uptime = split /,/, `uptime`; -] > > With msec set to 3 the line above works but when I set it to 4 it > doesn't. Does this kind of call work you you? -- Brian Schoenhofer [EMAIL PROTECTED] 416-880-5463 cell --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]