SSH and ActiveState

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

I need help with getting sftp2 to work in WindowsXP from a Perl Script. I can call the commande with

system "sftp2 -v -B \"c:\\inetpub\\sftp_instructions.txt\" user\@server.domain.com";

I can run the command from a DOS command like, and it works just fine, but when run from a Perl script, it gives me the following error:

SshFileCopy: Making local connection.

SshFileXferClient: ext_name `newline@vandyke.com', data:

00000000: 0d0a                                     ..

SshFileCopy: Connection to local, ready to serve requests.

Sftp2: Connection ready.

FATAL: E:\m-ssh2-b33\lib\sshutil\sshsysutil\win32\sshwinstdiostream.c:
+480 SshStdioStream (function name unavailable) Precondition failed: s
+rc
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I know this is more of an SSH question, but there HAS to be a way to get this to work.

I have tried to get Net::SFTP installed, but it fails (So does Net:SSH for that matter)

I can't get either module installed on either Unix, or Windows, using CPAN, so I just gave up and tried to run the command from a batch called from Perl.
(NOTE*** Typing curse-words on the CPAN command line does not help!!!)

Has anyone seen this SSH error before? Sounds like it might be an ENV problem..???

Please Help!

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Re: SSH and ActiveState
by flyingmoose (Priest) on May 20, 2004 at 19:22 UTC

Just tried this to see if I could help out. ppm install Net-SSH should work fine using the ActiveState copy. It did for me anyhow.

From there, I was able to "perl -MCPAN -e 'install Net::SFTP' works, even without having any compilers. For the record, this asked me to install Net::SSH::Perl, so it's a pure perl implementation.

I'd use ppm to install the first and CPAN to install the second. Your mileage may vary, but I was able to get it to work.

The catch is that Net::SSH::Perl requires a lot of Crypt modules which aren't in the PPM database, so you would probably have to use a private PPM database or you would need VC++ to compile them.

UPDATE:I have no idea if this is a good site or not, but I found a PPD for Net::SFTP here. Try to install it if you like, ppm install filename.ppd should work and if it works, your problem is solved.