Re^3: Net::SSH::Perl ConnectTimeout (ssh -o option)

[Anonymous Monk]

This is a very late reply, but this has still not been implemented. I added the following to Perl.pm, right after the socket creation to give me a send/receive timeout of 10 seconds:

setsockopt($sock, SOL_SOCKET, SO_SNDTIMEO, pack('LL', 10, 0) ) or die $!;
setsockopt($sock, SOL_SOCKET, SO_RCVTIMEO, pack('LL', 10, 0) ) or die $!;

Hope that helps.
--mf

[Anonymous Monk]

This work-around almost solved my problem -- but my time_t was a 64-bit integer. I believe that pack("L!L!",...) is more portable in this case.

[cmv]

There is also a select call in the client loop that can be another cause delay. Select has the option of providing a timeout value, but the SSH2.pm code doesn't utilize it. The solution is discussed here:

Re^4: Net::SSH::Perl hangs(during cmd), but only in Mason environment

[Anonymous Monk]

Well this workaround is for timeout while creating SSH object or the timeout is applicable while executing a SSH command using that object. Will it die if there is no response from the command.
Thanks