Sorry for the delay in getting back to you. Apologies I just could not get to a computer yesterday. The Code I was using was the one taken from the perlmonks web-site. 

my $chan2 = $ssh2->channel();
$chan2->shell();
print $chan2 "hostname -a\n";
print "LINE : $_" while <$chan2>;
print $chan2 "tail -f /var/adm/messages";
print "LINE : $_" while <$chan2>;
$chan2->close;

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(In fact I tried various options on that perlmonks page without success.) The only difference being the "tail -f" command I used instead of "uname" or "who". I notice when I do a "tail -50000". The channel would stay open for as long as it took to get through the 50000 lines. So there is no problem with keeping the channel open as such.I think the problem lies when it is being an interactive real-time command like "tail -f" or "snoop" when I want to keep the channel up and for some reason it takes a snap-shot,or what's in it's buffer and then closes. Any help, greatly appreciated !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. U235sentinel have you ever come across this before?. Regards, Shooter

In reply to Re^3: Net::SSH2 Interactive command example by Anonymous Monk
in thread Net::SSH2 Interactive command example by shooter

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