Filed under: Automation, — Tags: Ant, jsch, ssh — Thomas Sundberg — 2012-01-16
The distribution of Ant 1.8.2 is broken on Mac.
It turns out that just adding jsch-0.1.45.jar to /usr/share/ant/lib is not enough if you want to use sshexec to execute ssh commands on a remote host. You will still get the error:
BUILD FAILED
/Users/tsu/projects/linkon/fp/sabine/resources/deploy/build.xml:57: Problem: failed to create task or type sshexec
Cause: the class org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.ssh.SSHExec was not found.
This looks like one of Ant's optional components.
Action: Check that the appropriate optional JAR exists in
-/usr/share/ant/lib
-/Users/tsu/.ant/lib
-a directory added on the command line with the -lib argument
Do not panic, this is a common problem.
The commonest cause is a missing JAR.
This is not a bug; it is a configuration problem
The solution is to download the ant distribution and manually patch it's lib directory with ant-jsch.jar. In my case
I added it to /usr/share/ant/lib
This will allow you to use ssh from Ant.
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