Net::SSH::Perl hangs while running remote command

sugarboy has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Am trying to run the a command on remote host using Net::SSH::Perl, which fails to return back any status. My script hangs up there. I have enabled debug logs a part of it is as follows:
remote-host$ service netbackup start
local-host: channel 2: new client-session
local-host: Requesting channel_open for channel 2.
local-host: Entering interactive session.
local-host: Sending command: service netbackup start
local-host: Requesting service exec on channel 2.
local-host: channel 2: open confirm rwindow 0 rmax 32768
local-host: input_channel_request: rtype exit-status reply 0

It did not go further from here

I could solve this problem using alarm, but wanted to check are there any other ways in Net::SSH::Perl that this can be handled?

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Re: Net::SSH::Perl hangs while running remote command by atcroft (Abbot) on Mar 04, 2011 at 05:47 UTC
My first question would be what happens if you try to connect to the same host with a command-line SSH client? I've recently started using Net::SSH::Perl myself (so I'm no expert), but you might try setting one or more of the following options when creating the object: Read more... (344 Bytes) Also, you might try wrapping your `$ssh->cmd()` call in an eval() and checking to see if it completes successfully or not (perhaps similar to the following): Read more... (326 Bytes) Hope that helps. (And if you find an answer that helps, I'd love to see it as an update or reply.)	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: Net::SSH::Perl hangs while running remote command by sugarboy (Beadle) on Mar 07, 2011 at 00:16 UTC
I tried by providing timeout option while creating ssh object, but which is not much of help...SSH is not timing out the command, its just waiting for the command to respond. Moreover am running the command in eval block.	[reply]
Re: Net::SSH::Perl hangs while running remote command by salva (Canon) on Mar 04, 2011 at 10:11 UTC
What happens when you manually open a session via SSH and run the same command there?	[reply]