the sleep command

Sorry, I should have been more clear on that: As far as I can tell, the sleep is not necessary in my code, I was simply using it for testing as a placeholder instead of connecting to the DB and doing work. As far as I can tell, the tunnel should remain open until you kill the slave process. So in my code, in the place where I commented "connect to remote MySQL via TCP at local 127.0.0.1:12345 / do your work here", that's what you should do :-)

The cat is a placeholder that I figured would just sit there and do nothing while the tunnel is being used, which indeed seems to be the case. Then again, you should probably listen to the module's author.

In reply to Re^3: How do you use Net::OpenSSH to query mysql database via ssh tunnel by haukex
in thread How do you use Net::OpenSSH to query mysql database via ssh tunnel by nysus

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