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Anyone out there familiar with Rex? I'm playing with it a bit but I'm having problems getting output from a particular machine. Please see my issue in the GitHub issue queue for my problem. Thanks.

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Re: Having trouble getting Rex (Remote Execution) module to generate output
by nysus (Parson) on Oct 15, 2018 at 00:47 UTC

    So I tracked the problem down to not having SFTP installed on the client server. It's needed in the is_dir function in the Rex::Interface::OpenSSH.pm. The VirtInfo module calls is_dir to determine if a directory exists.

    Seems odd I would need SFTP to check if a directory exists. Especially odd there is absolutely no warning is given about this. Overall, the Rex project doesn't seem to be getting maintained and code feels buggy. Unfortunate.

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