Hi there,

I need a way of initiating a command from a server on a client node and returning the results by way of some exit code so that I can handle the event in a proper way. Up to now, i've been doing this in a shell but that's unreliable and I don't get to see what really happened on the client side. I tried installing Net:SSH from CPAN but the list of dependencies are endless. I also tried Net::SSH2 which has far fewer dependencies but when trying to 'make' the package, it complained about "libssh2.so: undefined reference to dlerror" amongst other similar errors. So, my question I guess is twofold:

1) Am I going about this in the correct way and if so
2) Is Net:SSH2 the way to go?

Many thanks in advance
John

In reply to Running remote commands (Net::SSH2) by wilko

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