Re: SSH and qx

What version of Perl is the legacy OS is running?

Maybe we can find an old ssh module on cpan, pre installed.

You can check through cpan terminal if a module is installed like this:

cpan[1]> m Net::SSH
Reading '/home/user/.cpan/Metadata'
  Database was generated on Mon, 13 Mar 2017 14:17:02 GMT
Module id = Net::SSH
    CPAN_USERID  IVAN (Ivan Kohler <ivan-pause@420.am>)
    CPAN_VERSION 0.09
    CPAN_FILE    I/IV/IVAN/Net-SSH-0.09.tar.gz
    UPLOAD_DATE  2008-05-14
    MANPAGE      Net::SSH - Perl extension for secure shell
    INST_FILE    /home/user/perl5/lib/perl5/Net/SSH.pm
    INST_VERSION 0.09


cpan[2]> m Net::SSH::Perl
Module id = Net::SSH::Perl
    CPAN_USERID  SCHWIGON (Steffen Schwigon <schwigon@cpan.org>)
    CPAN_VERSION 2.09
    CPAN_FILE    S/SC/SCHWIGON/Net-SSH-Perl-2.09.tar.gz
    INST_FILE    (not installed)
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Hope this helps.

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Re^2: SSH and qx by cbeckley (Curate) on Mar 13, 2017 at 16:23 UTC
Thanks for taking the time to look at this. The version of Perl running is v5.12.3. Neither Net::SSH nor NET::OpenSSH, which is what I use elsewhere, are installed. v5.12.3 is good in that it opens some of the options that you and haukex have mentioned. This is the last machine of it's ilk in the environment and due to a number of reasons its retirement keeps getting postponed, and while I'm attempting to work through the resistance facing the installation of even local copies of Perl modules, unless I get permission to install new modules I'm stuck with what's currently installed. Thanks, cbeckley	[reply]
Re^3: SSH and qx by salva (Canon) on Mar 14, 2017 at 07:55 UTC
Net::OpenSSH is a pure Perl module. You just have to copy everything in the `lib` directory from the module distribution into some directory in the machine and add that directory into `@INC` to get it working. The only possible issue would be that the available `ssh` could be too old. If that is the case, you can also try Net::SSH::Any, that will happily work with older versions of `ssh` using the Ssh_Cmd backend. `Net::SSH::Any` is also a pure Perl module that you can install in the same way, just copying the contents of its `lib` directory.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: SSH and qx by cbeckley (Curate) on Mar 14, 2017 at 17:14 UTC
Wonderful! That worked like a charm! Thank you so much! Now I have these even older boxes where perl -v returns 5.004_04 ... :-p Thanks, cbeckley	[reply]