The Sample output I gave was my initial script the one I posted was to reproduce the same issue with a smaller code, as the other code ran to about 4000 or more lines with some dbi connections and queries against the database.
Why I am creating a new socket with every command entered by the user is also because I could not get the script to work with just one connection...as I explained above the main script does the following
1. accept a users command
2. parse the users command to see if the syntax is correct
3. connect to a local oracle database and execute the relevant sql with regards to the command entered by the user
4. go to a server that should have similar data based on an already defined hostname, oracle sid, username and password and check whether the same data is there
5. report back to the user on the local host the results
6. User now gets the prompt back and can enter new commands if wanted

I have tried to put $socket->close ; in a varied number of places especially in the function that creates client connections but I am sure this did not fix the issue. I will test this out again and post my findings.
Thanks for the tip.

In reply to Re^2: Client-Server Programme hangs... by aodukoya
in thread Client-Server Programme hangs... by aodukoya

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