Ok I am a bit closer. I know that !bash ran correctly in the remote session because while it was sitting there I typed the pwd and received the correct result. I guess now I am confused as to why the program is waiting on me to interact with it instead of continuing to run the other commands. Current code below 

-bash-4.1$ ./test1.pl 
# open_ex: ['ssh','-O','check','-T','-S','/home/kburns/.libnet-openssh
+-perl/kburns-10.10.10.-20023-380016','-l','kburns','10.10.10.1','--']
# _waitpid(20025) => pid: 20025, rc: 
# open_ex: ['ssh','-S','/home/kburns/.libnet-openssh-perl/kburns-10.10
+.10.-20023-380016','-l','kburns','10.10.10.1','--','!bash']

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I typed pwd and it worked so I know !bash ran correctly on the remote end.

pwd
/home/kburns 
my $ssh = Net::OpenSSH->new($host, user => $USERNAME, password => $PAS
+SWORD, str
ict_mode => 0);

$ssh->error and die "Couldn't establish SSH connection: " . $ssh->erro
+r;

$ssh->system('!bash') or die "remote command failed: " . $ssh->error;

print "!bash done\n";

$ssh->system('pwd') or die "remote command failed: " . $ssh->error;

print "pwd done\n"; # never gets here. it hangs

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In reply to Re^2: Net::OpenSSH Problem by kburns1969
in thread Net::OpenSSH Problem by kburns1969

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