diff --git a/clusterd/clusterd b/clusterd/clusterd
index afcb828..8e53815 100755
--- a/clusterd/clusterd
+++ b/clusterd/clusterd
@@ -283,6 +283,7 @@ sub run {
         for (@WRITER) { vec($wvec,$_->[0]->fileno,1)=1 } ;
         for (@EXCEPT) { vec($evec,$_->[0]->fileno,1)=1 } ;
 
+        wait;
         my $ready=select($rvec,$wvec,$evec,1);
         if ($ready>0) {
             for (my $i=0;$i<@READER;$i++) {
@@ -782,7 +783,7 @@ sub push_amd_tar {
         exec 'tar','cf',$filename,'.';
         die "$!\n";
     }
-    wait;
+    waitpid $pid, 0;
     $? and return;
 
     my $fh=new IO::File $filename,'<' or return warn "$filename: $!\n";
@@ -795,7 +796,7 @@ sub push_amd_tar {
         exec 'gzip','-f',$filename;
         die "$!\n";
     }
-    wait;
+    waitpid $pid, 0;
     $? and return;
 
     $filename='/tmp/amd.tar.gz';
@@ -879,11 +880,6 @@ sub udp_rx_exec {
         return;
     }
     unless ($pid) {
-        $pid=fork;
-        defined $pid or exit 1;
-        $pid and exit;
-
-        open STDIN,'<','/dev/null';
         open STDOUT,'>','/dev/null';
         open STDERR,'>','/dev/null';
         alarm(60);
@@ -891,7 +887,6 @@ sub udp_rx_exec {
         exec '/bin/sh','-c',$CMD{$cmd};
         exit 1;
     }
-    wait;
 }
 
 sub udp_rx_exec2 {
@@ -902,7 +897,6 @@ sub udp_rx_exec2 {
         return;
     }
     if ($pid == 0) {
-        open STDIN,'<','/dev/null';
         alarm(60);
         chdir '/';
         for my $cmd (@cmd) {
@@ -974,13 +968,13 @@ sub udp_rx_amdtardata {
             exec 'tar','xzf',$st_want->name;
             die "$!\n";
         }
-    }
-    wait;
-    $? and return;
+        waitpid $pid, 0;
+        $? and return;
 
-    warn "installed  /etc/amd - ",Digest::MD5::md5_hex($digest),"\n";
-    $INSTALLED_DIGEST=$digest;
-    system '/sbin/make-automaps';
+        warn "installed  /etc/amd - ",Digest::MD5::md5_hex($digest),"\n";
+        $INSTALLED_DIGEST=$digest;
+        system '/sbin/make-automaps';
+    }
 }
 
 our ($machine,$SYS_lchown,$SYS_mknod);
@@ -1368,31 +1362,24 @@ sub clp_rx_LSOF {
         return;
     }
     unless ($pid) {
-        my $pid=fork;
-        defined $pid or die "$!\n";
-        unless ($pid) {
-            $socket->blocking(1);
-            #       -n       inhibits the conversion of network numbers to host names for network files.
-            #       -b       causes lsof to avoid kernel functions that might block - lstat(2), readlink(2), and stat(2).
-            #       -w       disables warning messages.
-            open P,'timeout -k 92s 90s lsof -n -b -w|' or die "$!\n";
-            while (<P>) {
-                next if defined $pattern && index($_,$pattern)<0;
-                $socket->send(pack('n',length($_)).$_,0);
-            }
-            close P;
-            if ($?) {
-                $_=sprintf("** lsof timout/error on %s\n",$my_hostname);
-                $socket->send(pack('n',length($_)).$_,0);
-            }
-            close $socket;
-            exit;
+        $socket->blocking(1);
+        #       -n       inhibits the conversion of network numbers to host names for network files.
+        #       -b       causes lsof to avoid kernel functions that might block - lstat(2), readlink(2), and stat(2).
+        #       -w       disables warning messages.
+        open P,'timeout -k 92s 90s lsof -n -b -w|' or die "$!\n";
+        while (<P>) {
+            next if defined $pattern && index($_,$pattern)<0;
+            $socket->send(pack('n',length($_)).$_,0);
+        }
+        close P;
+        if ($?) {
+            $_=sprintf("** lsof timout/error on %s\n",$my_hostname);
+            $socket->send(pack('n',length($_)).$_,0);
         }
+        close $socket;
         exit;
     }
     close $socket;
-    wait;
-    return 1;
 }
 
 sub run_cmd {
@@ -1411,7 +1398,6 @@ sub run_cmd {
             warn "exec ".join(' ',@cmd)."\n";
             $opipe->writer();
             $epipe->writer();
-            open STDIN,'<','/dev/null';
             open STDOUT,'>&',$opipe;
             open STDERR,'>&',$epipe;
             exec @cmd;
@@ -1540,7 +1526,6 @@ sub clp_rx_CMD {
     my ($socket,@args)=@_;
     run_cmd($socket,@args);
     close $socket;
-    return 1;
 }
 
 # send_tcp_cp($socket,$cb,$timeout,@args)
@@ -2020,7 +2005,6 @@ FILE:
             }
         }
     }
-    open STDIN, '<', '/dev/null';
     chdir '/';
     alarm(60);
     for my $cmd (@$post_ary) {
@@ -2166,6 +2150,7 @@ if (defined $options{'push'}) {
     udp_broadcast_message($donald_s,'reexport');
 } elsif (defined $options{'daemon'}) {
     $SIG{PIPE}='IGNORE';
+    open STDIN,'<','/dev/null';
 
     $donald_s=new My::Select::INET(Proto=>'udp',Broadcast=>1,LocalPort=>$UDP_PORT) or die "$!\n";
     $donald_s->receive_data(\&udp_message,$donald_s);