That makes sense. I'm no way any expert on Linux Terminals and this is a weird issue I haven't seen before. Once I get back to work on Wednesday I'll troubleshoot this some more. Thank you again.

One other question: My ultimate goal is to use pipe opens in the threads if possible. Currently I'm capturing only 10 packets into those scalars. I would much rather prefer to use the pipe opens (so that data is continuously streamed from the various servers and printed out in real time). I had some trouble trying to implement that however. What would you recommend to perform such a task? Basically the code was the same, but the SSH line was replaced with a pipe open to the SSH/tcpdump process, then a while loop in each thread, that would print data if it was seen.

I can see that being difficult, as I've read in a few places that pipe opens aren't supported in Perl threads. Still, it would be much more preferable to find a way to stream the data continuously and not just capture 10 packets at a time, having to run the entire thing in some loop that constantly creates new SSH connections.

In reply to Re^4: Threads Printing Issue - Output Mangled / Term Crashing by bigbot
in thread Threads Printing Issue - Output Mangled / Term Crashing by bigbot

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