Need some help, Have been looking for any solutions and more than likely is something simple but i am too new to this stuff. Here is my problem I need to execute a series of commands and display the output on a page. Some limitations, - the user i using is able to ssh to servers without password. (user1) - the web server executing the script runs under root So i need to sudo the ssh user1@server echo "someotherserver" I believe my problem is with the syntax from the many concatenated commands Here is the section that is killing. (did i mention i am way new to this, On 2 days as of 12/22/14) Tried with No luck

my $dwfssh = "/usr/bin/sudo -u netcool /usr/bin/ssh -t user1\@serverna
+me";

#Ping Route Section
print "<p class=\"systemMsg\">Pinging $msg1 from Orlando </p>";
#open(PINGORF,"$dfwssh '/bin/ping -c 5 -q ".$test1."'|");
open(PINGORF,"/bin/ping -c 3 ".$test1."|");
        $old_fh = select(STDOUT);
        $| = 1;
        select($old_fh);

        print "<PRE><p class=\"results\">";
        while(<PINGORF>) {
                print;
        }
        print "</p></PRE>";

print "<p class=\"systemMsg\">Pinging $msg1 from Dallas </p>";

#open(PINGDWF,"$dfwssh '/bin/ping -c 5 -q ".$test1."'|");
$cmd1 = "/usr/bin/sudo -u 'user1 echo "Darn thing wont workr"'";
open(PINGDWF,"$cmd1");
        #open(PING,"/bin/ping -c 10 ".$test1."|");
        $old_fh = select(STDOUT);
        $| = 1;
        select($old_fh);

        print "<PRE><p class=\"results\">";
        while(<PINGDWF>) {
                print;
        }
        print "</PRE></p>";
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btw: i also tried the full command instead the variables in the Open thing I am able to run the echo and other commands in the script from the command line without problems but i place them back here i get No output..