If perl is moving on to other statements, then the command has finished on the remote server, or you've found a nasty bug inside Net::SSH:Perl. I suspect that something else is going wrong here, so here's how I'd debug it.

First off, inside your perl script add some statements showing the result of the command; a quick-and-dirty way would be: 

use Data::Dumper;
my $cmd = Generate_Command($arg1,$arg2);
print Dumper([$ssh->cmd($cmd)]);
$cmd = Generate_Another_Command($arg1,$arg2);
print Dumper([$ssh->cmd($cmd)]);

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Then, assuming that alone doesn't produce any useful diagnostic information, try modifying your shell script on the remote server to be a bit noisier: 
#! /bin/sh

set -x
CLASSPATH=/usr/local/classes/classes12.zip
PATH=/usr/local/java/bin:$PATH
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/tonga/lib
export CLASSPATH
export PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH

echo "About to start java at `date`"
/usr/local/tonga/bin/javadb dbVersion $1
javastat=$?
echo "Finished java at `date` with status $javastat"
exit $javastat

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I strongly suspect that the combination of these two changes will show that something else is going on, if the answer isn't apparent as soon as you make the first perl change above. 
--
@/=map{[/./g]}qw/.h_nJ Xapou cets krht ele_ r_ra/;
map{y/X_/\n /;print}map{pop@$_}@/for@/

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In reply to Re: How to hold execution of perl script while it runs command on remote machine by fizbin
in thread How to hold execution of perl script while it runs command on remote machine by linuxfan

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