Rocco-

Will POE::Component::RemoteTail automatically use() it for you?

I think so, here's a code excerpt from RemoteTail.pm:

    102     # use custom class
    103     if ( my $class = $job->{process_class} ) {
    104         $class->require or die(@!);
    105         $class->new();
    106         %program = ( Program => sub { $class->process_entry($j
+ob) }, );
    107     }
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Also, I added a print statement to the beginning of the NetSSHPerl module, and I saw the print output before the error message came out.

I'm also confused because I don't understand the meat of the RemoteTail::CustomEngine::NetSSHPerl module:

use POE::Component::RemoteTail::CustomEngine::NetSSHPerl;

use strict;
use warnings;
use Net::SSH::Perl;

print STDERR "In NetSSHPerl...\n";        #Added by cmv

sub process_entry {
    my $self  = shift;
    my $arg   = shift;

    my $host     = $arg->{host};
    my $path     = $arg->{path};
    my $user     = $arg->{user};
    my $password = $arg->{password};
    my $cmd      = "tail -f $path";

    my $ssh = Net::SSH::Perl->new( $host, protocol => "2,1" );
    $ssh->login($user);
    $ssh->register_handler(
        "stdout",
        sub {
            my ( $channel, $buffer ) = @_;
            my $log = $buffer->bytes;
            print $log;
            unless ($log) { exit; }
        }
    );
    my ( $stdout, $stderr, $exit ) = $ssh->cmd($cmd);
}

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Why does it have a use statement pointing to itself?
Shouldn't it have a module declaration instead?

I'm confused.