[Asterisk-Users] asterisk and defunct perl procs

[PJ Welsh]

Trying to figure out why I'm having all of my test (and demo) perl script in a defunct status. Each run creates a problem:

ps output
root     26253  1356  0 16:39 pts/1    00:00:00 asterisk -vvvc
root     26270 26253  0 16:40 pts/1    00:00:00 [pj.pl <defunct>]
root     26271 26253  0 16:40 pts/1    00:00:00 [pj.pl <defunct>]
root     26273 26253  0 16:40 pts/1    00:00:00 [pj.pl <defunct>]
root     26292 26291  0 16:45 pts/1    00:00:00 [pj.pl <defunct>]
root     26294 26291  1 16:45 pts/1    00:00:00 [pj.pl <defunct>]
root     26295  1259  0 16:45 pts/0    00:00:00 ps -ef

ASTERISK output
 -- context = default
 -- dnid = unknown
 -- enhanced = 0.0
 -- extension = 22231
 -- language = en
 -- priority = 1
 -- rdnis = unknown
 -- request = pj.pl
 -- type = Zap
 -- uniqueid = 1063403094.0
1.  Testing 'sendfile'...PASS (0)
    -- Playing 'digits/2'.
    -- Playing 'digits/2'
    -- Playing 'digits/2'
    -- Playing 'digits/3'
    -- Playing 'digits/1'
PASS (0)
================== Complete ======================
    -- AGI Script pj.pl completed, returning 0
    -- Hungup 'Zap/1-1'

the pj.pl is nothing but a hacked up agi-test.agi file.

Any help? Mailing list archive shows only a reported problem with festival (search on defunct).