Ever Gracious Monks,

I have a script that I'm running out of Task Scheduler (ActivePerl 5.12, Windows Server 2008 R2, connecting to linux).

The script connects fine, but the mget returns zero length files. It returns all the files in the remote directory, but all zero length.


use strict;
use warnings;

use Date::Manip;
use Archive::Zip;
use Net::SFTP::Foreign;
use Data::Dumper;

BEGIN {
    Win32::SetChildShowWindow(0) if defined &Win32::SetChildShowWindow
+;
}

my $producer = "file_copy"
my $output_log = $producer . "_output_log.log";
unlink( $output_log );

close(STDOUT);
open(STDOUT, ">>$output_log" );

close(STDERR);
open(STDERR, ">>$output_log" );

# Nessus directory
my $nessus_dir = '/opt/sc4/orgs/1/VDB';

my $incoming_dir = 'C:\\Users\\Administrator\\Incoming';

# Data file directory
my $data_dir = 'C:\\Users\\Administrator\\Data';

my $host = '255.255.255.255';
my $user = 'xxxxxxx';
my $password = 'xxxxxxx';

# Find the target results directory - look for yesterday's results
my $yesterday = ( time - 86400 );

my $dm = Date::Manip::Date->new;
$dm->parse( "epoch $yesterday" );
my $daily_results_dir = $dm->printf( "%Y-%m-%d" );

# Change this to load specific day's results
$daily_results_dir = "2011-09-10";

no warnings 'Net::SFTP::Foreign';

my $sftp = Net::SFTP::Foreign->new( $host, user => $user, password => 
+$password, ssh_cmd => 'plink' );
$sftp->error and die "Unable to connect to remote host: " . $sftp->err
+or;

# Get the files
$sftp->mget( "$nessus_dir/$daily_results_dir/*nessus-results.zip", "$i
+ncoming_dir");

undef $sftp;

# unzip the files.
chdir $data_dir;

opendir ( INCOMING_FILES, $incoming_dir ) or die "Can't open directory
+ $incoming_dir: $!";
for ( readdir INCOMING_FILES ) {
    next unless $_ =~ /zip$/;
    print "$_\n";
    my $az = Archive::Zip->new( "$incoming_dir\\$_" );
    $az->extractTree();
}

# Delete the zipped files in the Incoming directory
unlink ( glob ( "$incoming_dir\\*nessus-results.zip")) or warn "can't 
+delete files: $!";

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The output log shows

Unable to transfer files: 0 at copy_files.wpl line 56, <DATA> line 496.

Thinking that it might be a mget/plink thing, I tried running pscp from the command line, and got the error

Write error.. Waiting for the end of file

Again, it wrote the local file name, but no more. Permissions on the Windows box? the files are all .zip files from the linux box...

Thanks for any insight - Scott...

In reply to Net::SFTP::Foreign; plink yield zero length file by spstansbury

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