Hi, I have a script that I have been running successfully on perl 5.6.1. It uses Net::SSH to send the code of another perl script to a remote host. I tried to move the script(s) to a new box running 5.8 and it errors out while trying to run the cmd method on the command string passed to it. Here is the error (that is very misleading) and the relevant parts of the script. For some reason if I try to feed a `cat` to the $cmd string, it does not work 
use Net::SSH::Perl; 
$host = "somehost"; 
my $ssh = Net::SSH::Perl->new($host, 
                               protocol => '2', 
                               debug => 1, 
                               privileged => 0); 

#  THIS FAILS, WORKED FINE BEFORE 
#my $cmd = "perl -e '".`cat ./cm-unix.pl`."'"; 
#   THIS IS JUST A ONE LINE FILE with 'ls-l' THAT FAILS 
my $cmd = `cat GO`; 
# WORKS FINE 
my $cmd = 'cd /tmp; ls -l'; 


$ssh->login( $ENV{USER} ); 
my($stdout, $stderr, $exit) = $ssh->cmd($cmd);

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ERROR: input must be 8 bytes long at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/Crypt/DES.pm line 57.
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I have tried google and searching throug the archives but not have been able to find out why this happens Thanks for any help, Jim

In reply to Net:SSH:Perl Bug? by neptuna

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