>>>>> "Glen" == Glen <glen.brydon@...> writes:

Glen> The last suggestion which surrounded the kill command with grave
Glen> accents (`kill -9 PID`) was essentially causing perl to spawn a
Glen> process and running UNIX kill command. If this fails to work, then
Glen> your problem has nothing to do with perl. Check the following:

And beyond all that:

DO NOT USE KILL 9.

That's a *last resort* kill. Please try to kill the pid nicely first.
kill -9 will BREAK THINGS on your system. I don't know where people
got the idea to try this first... it's a bit like stopping your engine
by ripping out the ignition wires instead of just turning the key.

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