brian d foy++ looks like no one has checked this recently either! well all is now well in perl5db.pl version 1.42 that is what I used to test with. I suspect this is another item fixed by shlom-fish wake :) PERLDB_OPTS="dieLevel=0" #works or we could just reset the default to 0 as suggested by brian as that works as well. imho we should close this and discuss else whare wether 0 should be the new default value