Hi All,

Background: I'm writing a (yet another) distributed run module that will allow people to run distributed processes to many machines / stress test connections etc. I can either use Net::Telnet & Net::FTP to move stuff around, *or* I can use Net::SSH & Net::SCP to move files around. The security people in the organization would perfer me to use Net::SSH. I was going to par up all of the required modules in to a par...

Question: Net::SSH has large dependencies, since it requires the Crypt:: modules and Math:: modules and some Digest:: modules, which is fine, but I've noticed that some of the modules have at least one .c file... Danger Danger, Will Robinson! If I'm going to distribute a par that contains Net::SSH, it sounds like it wouldn't be cross platform compatible! Is this true or does magic happen here?

If I can't get this to work, I'll have a configuration boolean for instead of telnet use command line ssh -c and scp commands directly...

I will admit that at this point I haven't been able to get Net::SSH up and running yet, (so I haven't been able to create a par yet), because my .cpan file is confused and I haven't spent the time to figure it out so I've been downloading modules manually and doing the make install... I appologize for this, but I figured asking the question here might be simpler, and result in a good discussion...


Thanks and have a great day!

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Zak

In reply to par & Net::SSH by zakzebrowski

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