[ale] Any Perl Gurus Out There?

[Jonathan Glass]

I've written a little Perl script to monitor a log file and alert (in 
this case, insert the flagged data into a DB) on a certain pattern.  The 
parent process sits in an infinite loop watching the file, and whenever 
the pattern is matched, a child process is forked to do the DB 
insertion.  Anyone know the proper way to handle the death of all these 
child processes?  If I run a 'ps -aef' on the box while the script is 
running, I see dozens of '<defunct>' processes.

TIA

Jonathan Glass