Yes, I understand the Disconnected and "shutdown" and that's exactly what I'm trying to use. The problem is I can't get the Component::Client to successfully send a "shutdown" to the Component::Server. I've tried to duplicate different ways used in different examples but with no success. I've even used alias' and was still surprised that it didn't work (using exactly like the alias example in the CPAN pages). The example I have given doesn't shutdown the server, but it does illustrate my problem, I can't send a command from one component to the other (but vice versa it works fine). Perhaps I'm just getting confused with all the different sessions and heaps and trying to do make something work when it's really not even available in that particular scope?