I'm new to Perl and I'm working on a client socket program that sends files to a server socket program. The problem I'm having is that the file never gets populated with data on the server. The confusing part is if I change the while loop to while(<$client>) and put the $client = $server->accept(); above the loop, it works. This doesn't do me any good though because I need the server to continuously wait for new files from the client. Thanks for the help. 
#!/usr/contrib/bin/perl -w
use IO::Socket;
use Proc::Daemon;
Proc::Daemon::Init;

$receivefile = ">test.CONF";

$server = IO::Socket::INET->new(
    Listen    => 5,
    LocalAddr => 'localhost',
    LocalPort => 5050,
    Proto     => 'tcp',
    Reuse     => 1,
    Type      => SOCK_STREAM
) or die "Can't create server socket: $!";

open FILE, $receivefile or die "Can't open: $!";
while ($client = $server->accept()) {
    print FILE $_;
}
close($client);

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In reply to No data in server file using io::socket by wileykt

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