Thank you, now my perl daemon works with /etc/inittab I've removed fork() and used this line: pref:3:respawn:/bin/su -c '/usr/local/pref/pref.pl >/tmp/pref.txt 2>&1' nobody Regards Alex _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos