Net::SCP::Expect problem

[waiterm]

I'm trying to use Net::SCP::Expect because I'm using a password as opposed to a key in SCP.

My code is fairly straightforward:

#!c:\Perl\bin\perl.exe

# Rob Waite 10/2004
# Program to automate the process of SCP'ing Descriptions and photos to hi3

use strict;
use warnings;
use Net::SCP::Expect;
use lib "c:/tmp/LIB";
require "funcs.pl";

my $source = "c:/tmp/LIB/test.txt";
my $destination = "/home/Arob";

my $scpe = Net::SCP::Expect->new(host=>'host', user=>'user', password=>'****') || die "ERROR: Unable to log in\n";

$scpe->scp($source, $destination) || die "ERROR: File-upload error";

Unfortunately this is producing the following error:

Can't locate object method "new" via package "Expect" (perhaps you forgot to load "Expect"?) at C:/Perl/site/lib/Net/SCP/Expect.pm line 163.

Line 186 of Expect.pm is as follows:

    my $scp = Expect->new;

The error suggests that I'm not loading Expect.pm or it's failing to initialise fully, I copied the source for Expect.pm from here:

http://search.cpan.org/src/DJBERG/Net-SCP-Expect-0.10/Expect.pm

If you can help in any way whatsoever I'd be really grateful, I'm running this under ActiveState's port of Perl 5.8 on Windows XP.




Rob Waite

http://www.hostpipe.co.uk?src=TT

 

[waiterm]

Sorry, should read Line 163 of Expect.pm is as follows!!

Rob Waite

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[MikeLacey]

Have a look at $! in your die statement

Mike

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[waiterm]

Hi Mike,

Unfortunately it doesn't produce the die statement because it dies before it reaches it. I think the problem is with a dodgy install of Expect, I've had problems with its pre-requisites in the past (IO::Tty and IO:ty). Do you have any idea how these are structured and stored in the Perl/lib directory? This may help solve the problem so that I can get a clean instal of Expect in CPAN.

Thanks in advance.

Rob Waite

http://www.hostpipe.co.uk?src=TT

 

[MikeLacey]

No Rob, sorry. You installing expect using ppm? You might try un-installing and re-installing if so (not very helpful I know)

Mike

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[waiterm]

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\User>ppm
PPM - Programmer's Package Manager version 3.1.
Copyright (c) 2001 ActiveState SRL. All Rights Reserved.

Entering interactive shell. Using Term::ReadLine::Stub as readline library.

Type 'help' to get started.

ppm> s expect
Searching in Active Repositories
No matches for 'expect'; see 'help search'.

Rob Waite

http://www.hostpipe.co.uk?src=TT