redirect output to log file



hello all,

i'm invoking the program generate-report using backticks from my perl program and redirecting the output to the log file sge-stderr.log. but when i check the process using ps command it is spawing two processes where the below code is parent process and the program generate-report as child.


please help me out of how to redirect the output to the log file without spawing two process.


code:

`/usr/bin/perl /opt/finance/bin/generate-report $urid 2>> /opt/finance/logs/sge-stderr.log`;

thanks a ton,

when you use the system() or the backticks in perl, the program will do a fork and exec. this will result in two processes. why is there a restriction on the number of processes that you can create?