Hi electr0n wizard! On Saturday 23 Jan 2010 02:45:46 electr0n wizard wrote: > I am new to Perl and am running ActiveStatePerl on a Windows 7 > machine. I am trying to get SSH to work but get the error: > > The getpwuid function is unimplemented at C:/Perl/site/lib/Net/SSH/ > Perl.pm line 110.
My guess is that Net::SSH::Perl does not work on Windows because getpwuid() ( see: http://perldoc.perl.org/5.10.0/functions/getpwuid.html is a Unix-only function. I suggest you use a different module instead or use cygwin or something. > > When I try to run the following script: > > use Net::SSH::Perl ; > > $scon = Net::SSH::Perl->new ("www.savethetrain.org.uk"); > $scon->login("savethetrain","abc123"); > print "looking around ...\n"; > ($output,$errors,$exit) = $scon->cmd("ls -l"); > print $output; This script does not use "use strict;" and "use warnings;". You should add them to it, assuming you are going to use it. > > > This script was an example I found on the web. > I do have Net::SSH::Perl installed. > > Can someone give me advice on how to get around the error? > Thanks Hope it helps, Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Rethinking CPAN - http://shlom.in/rethinking-cpan Deletionists delete Wikipedia articles that they consider lame. Chuck Norris deletes deletionists whom he considers lame. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
