svscan and multilog with a perl process

Hi,

I'm having a problem with multilog when it is being invoked by svscan 
to receive output from a perl process.  There doesn't appear to be 
any output recorded at all in the log.  The trivial test case is:

/DIR/test/run
-----------------------
#!/bin/sh

exec /DIR/test/foo.pl
#__EOF__


/DIR/test/foo.pl
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#!/usr/bin/perl

while (1) {
     print localtime()."\n";
     sleep (int (rand (2)) + 1);
}
#__EOF__


DIR/test/log/run
-----------------------
#!/bin/sh

exec /usr/local/bin/multilog t /DIR/test/loghere
#__EOF__

when runing svscan in the DIR directory no output from foo.pl is 
recorded in the current log within /DIR/test/loghere/current.

If I change /DIR/test/run be a plain shell script which echos the 
date to standard out every second or so and run svscan on the 
directory the logging works.

Is this perhaps an issue with exec and perl?  Perhaps just with perl? 
If I rename /DIR/test/foo.pl to /DIR/test/run so that it is directly 
inovked instead of via an 'exec' I still don't get any logging.

If I execute the perl file and pipe using the shell to multilog I 
also don't see any logging.

I'm stumped at this point; I've been fiddling with this problem off 
and on for a while now and just can't seem to get it to work.  Any 
help or pointers would be most appreciated.

TIA,
Joel