I am using what I can glean from this thread to try to ssh into a cisco box and get a portion of it's config. What I am using below executes the two commands, sleeps 45 seconds, and by the time it gets past the sleep loop it has already closed the shell. Is there any way to make the shell stay open until I close it, if that makes sense? Like a keepalive of some kind?

if ($ssh)
    {  
      eval { 
        my $cs = Net::SSH2->new();
        $cs->connect($_);
        my $ip = $_;
        my $done = false;
        open (OUTFILE, ">$ip.txt");
        if ($cs->auth_keyboard($user,$pw))   # login
        {
          print "Opening SSH session to $_\n"; 
          my $chan2 = $cs->channel();         
          $chan2->shell();
          print $chan2 "term len 0\n";
          print $chan2 "sh run | be line\n";
#          until (<$chan2> =~ /line con 0/i) {
#          print "in the line con 0 loop";
          print <$chan2>; 
#          }; # prints everything above the "line con 0" line
#          print OUTFILE "line con 0\n";                         # pri
+nts the "line con 0" line
#          until ($done) {
#            print "do we even enter the until loop?\n\n";
#            if (<$chan2> =~ /new/i) {
#              print "we are done!!!\n\n\n";
#              $done = true; 
#            }
#            print "the similarity of chan2 and end is " . (<$chan2> =
+~ /new/i) . "\n";
#           print <$chan2> . "here is another line " . $done;         
+    
#          }          # prints everything below the "line con 0" line
           my $count = 45;
          while ($count > 0) {
            print --$count;
            sleep 1;
          }
          until (<$chan2> =~ /line con 0/i) {1; }; 
          print $chan2 "exit\n";
          print "chan2 is empty, and we are awake\n";
          close (OUTFILE);
          $chan2->close;                 # Log out of device
          print LOG "SSH to " .  $ip . "\n";
        }
      };  # End trying ssh
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so, I fixed it, with

    if ($ssh)
    {  
      eval { 
        my $cs = Net::SSH2->new();
        $cs->connect($_);
        my $ip = $_;
        open (OUTFILE, ">$ip.txt");
        if ($cs->auth_keyboard($user,$pw))   # login
        {
          print "Opening SSH session to $_\n"; 
          my $chan2 = $cs->channel();         
          $chan2->shell();
          print $chan2 "term len 0\n";
          print $chan2 "sh run | be line\n";
          print OUTFILE <$chan2>; 
          print OUTFILE "line con 0\n";                               
+  # prints the "line con 0" line
          print OUTFILE <$chan2>;                                     
+  # prints everything below the "line con 0" line
           until (<$chan2> =~ /line con 0/i) {1;};
          print OUTFILE <$chan2>;                                     
+  # prints everything below the "line con 0" line
           close (OUTFILE);
          $chan2->close;                 # Log out of device
          print LOG "SSH to " .  $ip . "\n";
        }
      };  # End trying ssh
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It must have been the blocking missing, and the untils were messing it up.