Hi, TechFly,

No. As usual, there's more than one way to do it. In addition to threads (which I've never used in Perl), I can think of several:

1. The lo-tech way: Use backgrounded system calls that append to a single logfile then tail the log from another terminal.
2. Classic IPC using fork() and exec() and open3() as described in the perlipc perldoc.
3. Same as 2), but let a Perl module like IPC::PerlSSH::Async do the heavy lifting for you.

Cheers,

Larry