Hey Monks,

I'm fairly new to Perl, so please excuse my stupidity. I can get the Net::SSH module working properly with the while loop, but I want to throw in a if..else statement, but I'm lost.

Also, what are the functions of the READER and WRITER commands in this script?

Thanks -Dru

#!/usr/bin/perl
 
use Net::SSH qw(sshopen2);
         use strict;
 
my $user = "jdoe";
         my $host = "192.168.2.3";
         my $cmd = "ps -ef | grep -v grep |grep fwd";
 
        sshopen2("$user\@$host", *READER, *WRITER, $cmd) || die "ssh: 
+$!";
 
        # Example from README
        #
        # while (<READER>) {
        #     chomp();
        #     print "$_\n";
        # }
 
        if ($cmd) {
            print "FWD is running\n";
        }
        else { 
            print "FWD is not running!!\n";
        }
         close(READER);
         close(WRITER);
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