The "sleep" program was just an example... What I want to do (and I forgot to put in the & ) was for a background programs to "do something". I want a notification to know when all of the programs have exited, so I can scp any output files back to the orignal host... (Which I have working, just not when I launch a bunch of background programs...) I'll figure it out..
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Zak
undef$/;$mmm="J\nutsu\nutss\nuts\nutst\nuts A\nutsn\nutso\nutst\nutsh\
+nutse\nutsr\nuts P\nutse\nutsr\nutsl\nuts H\nutsa\nutsc\nutsk\nutse\n
+utsr\nuts";open($DOH,"<",\$mmm);$_=$forbbiden=<$DOH>;s/\nuts//g;print
+;
