Ok, I guess I'm not good enough XP-wise to edit my main post? Well, here's a new twist to the whole story. I logged in via ssh from my parent's home, ran the program, and it worked fine. I added the loop back in, changed back to the $ldap->add() style of code, and it successfully added about 50 entries.

When I got back to my office this morning, it doesn't work. Is there something in my RH8 environment that might be knocking it out of shape? UTF-8 ?

here's what the debug=>8 out yielded... 

Net::LDAP=HASH(0x8d9c378) sending:
Net::LDAP=HASH(0x8d9c378) received:
0000   12: SEQUENCE {
0002    1:   INTEGER = 1
0005    7:   [APPLICATION 1] {
0007    1:     ENUM = 0
000A    0:     STRING = ''
000C    0:     STRING = ''
000E     :   }
000E     : }
Net::LDAP=HASH(0x8d9c378) sending:

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And it just hangs right there. My current code base (just the ldap part): 

use Net::LDAP;
use Net::LDAP::Entry;
my $ldap = Net::LDAP->new('localhost',debug=>8);

my $bind_msg = $ldap->bind( dn => 'cn=Manager, dc=osprey,dc=net',
                            password => 'secret' );
if ( my $bind_code = $bind_msg->code ) {
   die "Cannot bind:", $bind_msg->error,
       " (Code: $bind_code)";
}


 foreach  my $username (sort keys %petra) {

 my $dn = "uid=${username}_osprey_net, ou=users, ispmanDomain=osprey.n
+et, dc=osprey,dc=net";
    my $ref = $petra{$username};
     $result = $ldap->add( dn=> $dn,attr => [@$ref]               
                 
                );
      
$result->code && warn "$dn" ."failed to add entry: ", $result->error ;

}

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In reply to Update: Re: perl-LDAP process hangs by Notromda
in thread perl-LDAP process hangs by Notromda

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