Sorry about this. Thanks to the responses I got here and in #perl on freenode, I managed to get most of what I was trying, by way of a very ugly kludge. Now I've found an only slightly related bug.
I have the following two statements ($self->sendmsg is a wrapper for PoCo::IRC's 'privmsg' method) $self->sendmsg($server, $nickserv, "identify $nickservpass"); $self->sendmsg($server, $chanserv, "op $channel $chansrvpass"); If I understand correctly, each of these (more accurately, each of the $poe_kernel->post() they call) actually forks it out, then immediately continues on with the session. I'm working on the assumption that that is (roughly) how it works. The problem seems to come in at the nanosecond level. Sometimes the nickserv command finishes first, thus allowing the chanserv command to be successful. Sometimes the chanserv command finishes first, and fails because the nick isn't identified. Is there a way to "chain" post() calls, so that I can ensure that these two get done in the right order? (Won't deny it being highly useful elsewhere as well ;) ) Thanks! -C -- "You know how dumb the average Luser is? Well, half of 'em are dumber than that" -- The Roadie in NANAE
