I'm working on a scrip which idea is to create threads and simultaniously go thoughout a list of machines and check for things. It appears that when a thread goes into it's seperate termintal using "ssh ......" it gets stuck and I can't kill it. They also have a timer which doesn't seem to be working.

Here is the code: 
sub call_cmd{

my $host = shift;
my $cmd = shift;
my $command = $cmd;
my $message;

open( DIR, "$cmd|" ) || die "No cmd: $cmd $!";
while(<DIR>){

    $message.=$_;
    print "\n $host $message \n";

    close DIR;
}


print "I'm here";
}

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I get the output message which the ssh returns but i never get to the next print. This is the code for creating the threads. 

foreach(@machines){
    my $_ = threads->create(thread_creation,$_);
    $SIG{ALRM} = sub { $_->kill('ALRM') };
    push(@threads,$_);
}


sub thread_creation(){

my $host =  $_;

eval{
    $SIG{ALRM} = sub { die; };
    alarm(5);


     ssh_con($host,"pblue");


    alarm(0);

}

}

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Thanks for the help.

In reply to Threads getting stuck in ssh connection by Wald

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