[Ssh-sftp-perl-users] quick question with regard to exec

[Jeremy K. <ki...@sc...>]

I'm trying to write a quick program which will execute a series of
commands on the remote system and get each individual exit status back
from the commands.

It appears the way to go about doing this is to create a new channel,
exec, get the exit status, destroy the channel, exec, get the exit
status, etc.

However, I *also* want to grab the output of these commands (stdout and
stderr) in real time, so I'm trying to use poll.

Now, I could be going about this completely the wrong way.  If I am,
please let me know :)

$channel->shell doesn't seem like it fits for me as I don't think I can
get the exit statuses back from the remote commands being run.

Here's a bit of what I have so far (which isn't working):

	my $channel = $ssh->channel;

	$channel->exec("sleep 5 && echo 'moo' && sleep 1");

	print "\n";
	while (1) {
		print "loop\n";
		my @poll = ({handle => $channel, events => ['in','err']});
		if ($ssh->poll(500, \@poll)) {
			# handle events
		}

		print Dumper($poll[0]->{revents});
	}


everything is all well and good until the command finishes (after the
sleep 5), when polling completely blocks.  Nothing further ever happens.
 If I kill the remote sshd process handling the connection (the
user@notty process) then it returns these events:
$VAR1 = {
          'in' => 1,
          'value' => 129,
          'listener_closed' => 1,
          'channel_closed' => 1
        };


Is there some step I'm missing to make this work how I want?

-Jeremy