Thanks for the replies guys. In reply to your help sh1tn first. I probably didn't explain myself very well. I could get that example with "uname -a" to work but I couldn't get it to work with an example that is Interactive. For example I could get it to work with
"tail 10 /var/adm/messages"
but couldn't get it to work with
"tail -f /var/adm/messages"
as this has the ability to be changing all the time where the former is just a snapshot.

In answer to idsfa,you could possibily be correct but if I can get it working for Net::Telnet It should work for Net::SSH::Perl. Besides, I could understand that being the case for a snoop maybe but not a tail -f on a small file

Searched a fair bit around the net looking for an answer but can't find one as yet. Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated

Shooter.