Re: [Ssh-sftp-perl-users] call Carp::croak() i a module ?!

[Merijn B. <me...@il...>]

Quoting ThoSi (pe...@th...):
> Hi Folks
> 
> I want to use Net:SSH::Perl to automatically run some commands on several 
> hosts. All the hostnames are stored in a database.
> 
> I decided to use Net::SSH::Perl because I can configure everything I need. 
> The auth is done by a SSH-Key (RSA). Unfortunately not all of the hosts in the DB have 
> the SSH Key stored in their ~/.ssh/authorized_keys. When I try to connect to one of 
> these hosts using SSH2, my script dies because of a Carp::croak() call in the
> Net::SSH::Perl::AuthMgr module (line 142).
> 
> Is there a way to turn off this "die" and just get a error-message instead? 
> If a hosts doesn't have this ssh-key, I don't want to abort my script, I wnat to continue with 
> the next hostname instead.
> 
wrap your call in an eval {} construct like so :

eval {
	my $ssh = Net::SSH::Perl->new($host);
	$ssh->login($user);
	my($stdout, $stderr, $exit) = $ssh->cmd($cmd);
}
if ($@) {
	warn "Could not connect to $host because of [$@]\n";
}

Hope this helps,
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