Folks- You can check out the following link to see how I've been educated on this issue so far, but I'm having trouble engineering a solution. I hope to be able to put this solution into the cookbook, once it's been reviewed by all interested parties.
http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=813252 Shows my initial question, the two answers I got, and my first failed attempt at a solution. Here is a quick summary: I'm using POE to fire off a series of processes that tail remote logfiles via ssh. The child processes try the remote commands, expecting the ssh public/private keys to already be setup between the two machines. If not, the child knows how to go ahead and set them up for the user - however it needs to get a password from the user for the setup to work. The parent process is running the Tk mainwindow for the GUI interface with the user. The two suggested solutions are: 1.) Run independent Tk event loops from the children 2.) Have the children request the parent to get this information. I'm currently trying to follow solution #2, but can't seem to get it to work. Any thoughts, pointers, suggestions, etc, are appreciated. Thanks -Craig PS - My code is available from the above link
