On 3 May 2012 09:53, Guillaume Rousse <guillomovitch at gmail.com> wrote: >> please use system("/usr/bin/chvt", "1"), or system(qw(/usr/bin/chvt 1)) >> instead in order to not fork useless shells. > > and kill is a perl builtin perl too: > kill SIGRTMAX-10, 1 needs 'use POSIX;' though for symbolic values