[root@devel3 james.freeman]# cat test.pl #!/usr/bin/perl use IO::Socket; use IO::Select; my $lsn = IO::Socket::INET->new( Listen => 10, LocalAddr => '64.246.xx.xx', LocalPort => 9000 ); my $client = new IO::Select( $lsn ); while( my @ready = $client->can_read ) { for my $fh (@ready) { if($fh == $lsn) { warn "Accepted new socket\n"; my $new = $lsn->accept; $client->add($new); } else { syswrite(STDOUT,$_,1) if sysread($fh,$_,1 ); } } }