HI all.
Firstly, I am not normally a Perl developer...I tinker with it when I need a specific solution....so forgive m if the below is obvious smile

What I have is a Perl script daemon that looks at a file using Tail and then outputs the data via a serial port. This works perfectly fine. BUT, I wanted to ramp it up a bit and instead of outputting the data via serial, I want to send it via TCP.
I googled around, and found some pretty simple code, but I get unexpected results.
Basically, I dont get any data output until I stop the daemon...which I only stumbled upon when testing.
Here is part of my code:- 

my $sock = new IO::Socket::INET (
PeerAddr => '192.168.1.2',
PeerPort => '8000',
Proto => 'tcp'
);
while (defined(my $line=$file->read)) {

           print TTY "$line"; #out serial
           print $sock "$line"; #out tcp

}
close($sock);

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As you can see, not exactly complex.
I tried moving the "my $sock" init of the socjet to just above the "print $sock" line, then closeing the socket, but this didnt really work. I tried $sock->send(); but this didnt make any difference.

I am sure someone will spot the problem beable to tell.

Thanks, Jeremy

Edit: g0n - code tags & formatting

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