csshX not working in Ventura

Question

I upgraded to Ventura this weekend, and now csshX won't run. I get the error messages

Unimplemented: POSIX::tmpnam(): use File::Temp instead at /System/Library/Perl/5.30/darwin-thread-multi-2level/POSIX.pm line 185.
Unimplemented: POSIX::tmpnam() at /Users/barmar/bin/csshX line 1130.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /Users/barmar/bin/csshX line 1130.

I don't think the solutions at csshX not working on Mac OS Big Sur will work because perl5.18 doesn't exist any more. The only versions of perl are 5.30 and 5.34.

Answer 1

I found a solution here. I made a private copy of csshX and changed

use POSIX qw(tmpnam);

to

use File::Temp qw/ :POSIX /;

Answer 2

It may be worth noting that csshX seems to choke on modern versions of Bash. After downloading a forked version containing the fixes needed to get it running, I still got an error:

No master at /usr/local/bin/csshX line 1300.
 at (eval 11) line 1.
    main::__ANON__("No master at /usr/local/bin/csshX line 1300.\x{a}") called at /usr/local/bin/csshX line 1300
    CsshX::Launcher::new("CsshX::Launcher") called at /usr/local/bin/csshX line 2306

I found an old complaint about a similar issue that was resolved by changing the shell. I had the Terminal.app setting "Shells open with" set to /opt/local/bin/bash. Instead I set the Terminal setting back to "Default login shell"

Then I updated my login shell:

sudo echo '/opt/local/bin/bash' >> /etc/shells
chsh -s /opt/local/bin/bash

Now, new windows still open with my preferred shell, but the csshX master window uses the system default and seems to work well. Impressive for a 12 year old piece of software!