Wow that's a lot to take in.

This is just a quick reply on part of what you said.

If I use shell() I see the "welcome message" and command prompt. I can type stuff and it echoes to screen but that's it. I don't see any responses from the server.

I was trying the exit command simply as that's the simplest command I have and should just disconnect and end the Perl script.

I've not tried Net::SSH and was hoping not to as latter on I may need to run a command several (hundred) times with different parameters. Net::SSH::Perl lets me keep the link open and so save time rather than reconnect for each iteration.

I'll report back further one I find out what I can find out.

Thanks again for the pointers.

In reply to Re^4: net::ssh::Perl connecting to f-secure ssh server by tweetiepooh
in thread net::ssh::Perl connecting to f-secure ssh server by tweetiepooh

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