Hi Andrew, hi Bill! Thanks for your reply! On Friday 08 August 2003 02:22, Andrew Perrin wrote: > The problem is that perl is wait()ing for the daemon to return before > exiting. > > From man perlipc: > > [piece of code] With your help i solved my problem. I allready tried to fork, but forgot to redirect stdin/out/err. That was the problem! Best regards Henning