Hi, Perl/SSH/SFTP noob here. I really want to use this package, but I'm having a couple of problems +. 1) I get "Invalid type Q" errors in Buffer.pm due to the use of the Q template in pack statements, +like: use constant HAS_QUADS => eval { no warnings; pack(Q => 0x1122334455667788) eq "\x11\x22\x33\x44\x55\x66\x77\x88" }; If I comment out all the code that references quads, it compiles. But, I'd rather figure out why I +can't use it as it is. 2) Running with the quad code commented out of Buffer.pm as described above, I am not able to conne +ct to my sftp server. I can use the same values at the command line to connect just fine using SFT +P (not SSH), but using this module I get the not-so-enlightening error msg "SSH connection failed: + bad remote message received". This error comes back very quickly, much more quickly than the serv +er responds when I connect at the cmd line via SFTP. The code looks like this: my $sftp = Net::SFTP::Foreign->new(host => $host, user => $user, port => $port, more => [qw(-i +/home/me/.ssh/priv_key_filename)]); One thing I should mention that may be related, when I try to connect to the server using SSH at th +e cmd line (as opposed to SFTP which works fine), I get the response "Shell access has been disabl +ed by the system administrator." I have no control over the server configuration. I'd very much like to use this package, so if there is any advice out there on these issues, I'd ve +ry much like to hear it. Thanks in advance for the help. James

Hi Salva. Thanks for the quick reply. Sorry, but I don't know how to find your email address, or I +would have sent this reply to you directly. If you'll tell me how to reach you I'll do that in the + future. I'm afraid I'll have to refrain from declaring anything in Perl to be a bug until I get e +nough experience with Perl to know a problem is not my fault, so I probably won't be using the bug + tracking system just yet. But thanks for the tips. Anyway, the output from perl -V is shown below. Also, I added the -v option to the more arg, but th +e error message did not change...same as before, no additional info. Thanks again for the help! James Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 8 subversion 8) configuration: Platform: osname=linux, osvers=2.6.15.4, archname=i486-linux-gnu-thread-multi uname='linux ninsei 2.6.15.4 #1 smp preempt mon feb 20 09:48:53 pst 2006 i686 gnulinux ' config_args='-Dusethreads -Duselargefiles -Dccflags=-DDEBIAN -Dcccdlflags=-fPIC -Darchname=i486 +-linux-gnu -Dprefix=/usr -Dprivlib=/usr/share/perl/5.8 -Darchlib=/usr/lib/perl/5.8 -Dvendorprefix= +/usr -Dvendorlib=/usr/share/perl5 -Dvendorarch=/usr/lib/perl5 -Dsiteprefix=/usr/local -Dsitelib=/u +sr/local/share/perl/5.8.8 -Dsitearch=/usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.8 -Dman1dir=/usr/share/man/man1 -Dman +3dir=/usr/share/man/man3 -Dsiteman1dir=/usr/local/man/man1 -Dsiteman3dir=/usr/local/man/man3 -Dman +1ext=1 -Dman3ext=3perl -Dpager=/usr/bin/sensible-pager -Uafs -Ud_csh -Uusesfio -Uusenm -Duseshrpli +b -Dlibperl=libperl.so.5.8.8 -Dd_dosuid -des' hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define usethreads=define use5005threads=undef useithreads=define usemultiplicity=define useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef Compiler: cc='cc', ccflags ='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DTHREADS_HAVE_PIDS -DDEBIAN -fno-strict-aliasing + -pipe -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64', optimize='-O2', cppflags='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DTHREADS_HAVE_PIDS -DDEBIAN -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I +/usr/local/include' ccversion='', gccversion='4.0.3 (Debian 4.0.3-1)', gccosandvers='' intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234 d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12 ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8 alignbytes=4, prototype=define Linker and Libraries: ld='cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib' libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib libs=-lgdbm -lgdbm_compat -ldb -ldl -lm -lpthread -lc -lcrypt perllibs=-ldl -lm -lpthread -lc -lcrypt libc=/lib/libc-2.3.6.so, so=so, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.so.5.8.8 gnulibc_version='2.3.6' Dynamic Linking: dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-Wl,-E' cccdlflags='-fPIC', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib' Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): Compile-time options: MULTIPLICITY PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT PERL_MALLOC_WRAP THREADS_HAVE_PIDS USE_ITHREADS USE_LARGE_FILES USE_PERLIO USE_REENTRANT_API Built under linux Compiled at Apr 4 2006 22:23:52 @INC: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.8 /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.8 /usr/share/perl/5.8 /usr/local/lib/site_perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.4 /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.4 .

Sorry about that. For the fatal error I ran it in a place that had some other die handler running I + didn't know about. The following is from a standard environment. I execute this code... use Net::SFTP::Foreign; my $sftp = Net::SFTP::Foreign->new( host => 'sftp.myhost.com', user => 'user', more => [qw(-v -i /home/user/.ssh/my_priv_key)] ); $sftp->error and die "SSH connection failed: " . $sftp->error; using this command... perl -T SFTPTest.pl and I get this error msg... SSH connection failed: Connection to remote server is broken at SFTPTest.pl line 9. When I use this command... perl SFTPTest.pl it works fine. Sorry for the confusion! Thanks.