Net::SCP under Windows task scheduler failed

siriche has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

dear Monks, the following works like a charme when run on the command line of my Windows 7 box ---------------------------------

use Net::SCP;
my $hostname     = "myserver";
my $username     = "myuser";
my $scp;
$scp = Net::SCP->new({ "host"=>$hostname, "user"=>$username });
$scp->get("/my/remote/path/myfile.file", "mylocalpath/") or die $scp->
+{errstr};
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--------------------------------- but when I add this to my task scheduler nothing happens. Tried several things (almost everything) with the syntax. Any idea/thoughts would be very much appreicated. Thanks S

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Re: Net::SCP under Windows task scheduler failed by syphilis (Archbishop) on Nov 13, 2013 at 11:03 UTC
dear Monks, the following works like a charme Are you sure that your test script actually does anything ? It would be a rare feat if you've actually got Net::SCP to do anything useful on native Windows. I mean ... I can build, test and install Net-SCP-0.08 (and pre-requisites String-ShellQuote-1.04 & Net-SSH-0.09) on Windows without experiencing any problems. But that only happens because the test suites don't really test any functionality at all. Or are you running under Cygwin ? (That might improve your chances somewhat.) For "native" Windows you'll want to use the scp capabilities provided by the Net::SSH2 module. Cheers, Rob	[reply]
Re^2: Net::SCP under Windows task scheduler failed by siriche (Initiate) on Nov 13, 2013 at 12:41 UTC
my test script works fine I run it on the Windows command shell and it does what it's suppose to do, i.e. scp a file from a remote unix server to my windows. That works fine. But I need this to run as a windows 7 task. And that does not work. I suspect being a problem with the ssh key. How can i force net::scp to use a specific id_rsa file? is there anything like -i "my_id_rsa_file" option? I haven't seen anything in that sense Maybe missed something.	[reply]
Re^3: Net::SCP under Windows task scheduler failed by siriche (Initiate) on Nov 13, 2013 at 14:26 UTC
OK resolved ! The task scheduler under Windows 7 has a tab "Actions" This tab has three fields The field 'Program/script:' is pretty obvious it should contain "perl" The field 'Add arguments' should contain the script "test.pl" And the field 'Start in' should contain the absolute path where your argument/file is,so in my case something like "D:\my\path\" To whom it may serve	[reply]
Re: Net::SCP under Windows task scheduler failed by Anonymous Monk on Nov 13, 2013 at 10:11 UTC
but when I add this to my task scheduler nothing happens. did you check the logs? What kind of diagnostic messages did you get? When you turned on debugging/logging/verbosity? A lot of what applies to task schedule also applies to crontab, see Re^3: DBD::mysql fail install check (crontab debugging troubleshooting DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH ldd otool ...)	[reply]
Re^2: Net::SCP under Windows task scheduler failed by siriche (Initiate) on Nov 13, 2013 at 10:25 UTC
The tasks scheduler logs say "Task Scheduler successfully finished:" Windows is self satisfied.	[reply]
Re^3: Net::SCP under Windows task scheduler failed by Anonymous Monk on Nov 13, 2013 at 12:09 UTC
The tasks scheduler logs say "Task Scheduler successfully finished:" Windows is self satisfied. And what do your logs say?	[reply]