[Thamesvalley-pm] using ssh within perl scripts

Greg Matthews gmatt at nerc.ac.uk
Wed Oct 31 05:11:16 PDT 2007


Adam Trickett wrote:
> On Tuesday 30 Oct 2007, Greg Matthews wrote:
>> Seems like I'm the only one to ask for advice here...
>>
>> I'm using ssh to connect to a series of machines like so:
>>
>> open( SSH, "$ssh_bin $ssh_opts $host $command |") or die...
>> while (<SSH>) {
>> 	....
>> }
>> close SSH;
>>
> 
> Did you consider the Net::SSH::Perl or Net::SSH module, or do you really need 
> to do it this way?

yes, I looked at these initially, my main concern is that I can't 
guarantee that these modules will be available. IIRC at least one of 
these will do what I want.

For now I think I'll live with the ssh timeouts - this is run from cron 
so its not /my/ time!

thanks all

GREG

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