Hello cbeckley,

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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In reply to Re: SSH and qx by thanos1983
in thread SSH and qx by cbeckley

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