Can someone tell me why Perl is not letting me use local here? This is the error I'm getting: 
Global symbol "$stout" requires explicit package 
name at ./temp.pl line 48.
Global symbol "$stout" requires explicit package 
name at ./temp.pl line 49.
Global symbol "$stout" requires explicit package 
name at ./temp.pl line 71.
Global symbol "$stout" requires explicit package 
name at ./temp.pl line 75.
Execution of ./temp.pl aborted due to compilation errors.

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From everything I read, I thought I could declare $stout as a local variable so that it can also be used in the run subroutine. I tried to make it global declaring it with my outside of the the subs, but I got some strange results. I'm trying to figure out what code ssh returns on a successfull connection. 
    45  sub connect {
    46  
    47   for(@host){
    48    local $stout = run($_);
    49     unless($stout == 256) {
    50      $success++;
    51      last;
    52     }
    53    print "$_ not responding\n";
    54   }
    55   print "All hosts not responding" unless $success;
    56  
    57  }
    58  
    59  
    60  # 
    61  
    62  sub run {
    63  
    64   my $host = $_[0];
    65   my $user = 'root';
    66   my $cmd = '/usr/local/scripts/temp.sh';
    67  
    68   ssh("$user\@$host", $cmd);
    69  
    70  
    71   if($stout == 256) {
    72    print "Problem sshing: $!\n" and exit;
    73   }
    74   else{
    75    print "STDOUT is: $stout\n";
    76   }

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Thanks,
Dru

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