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Mysterious script crash in win2k and ActivePerl  by jhanna
(Scribe) on Dec 13, 2002 at 16:09 UTC
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jhanna has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the
following question:  I have a script that runs perfectly for a
long while and then dies mysteriously. I've included a lot of
debugging print statements, but they haven't been able to
isolate the problem. The script runs in a batch file (from a DOS
command prompt) that restarts the script when it ends, and most
of the time the batch file restarts the script, but sometimes
the entire DOS box disappears. There's nothing pertinent in
Window's event log. If there is an error on the screen, it's
gone by the time I get to it. It runs between 6 and 30 hours
between crashes, so I can't just sit and watch it.  What more
can I do (besides putting a print statement after every