Hi,
I'm trying to schedule a script hosted on a linux machine from a windows server, using ssh. I generated the keys and accomplished all the stuff related. Then I wrote a batch on Windows where I put the ssh command to remotely lounch the script on linux. When I manually lounch that batch from Windows, all works fine. But if I logout and try to schedule the execution of the same batch, it doesn't work. It seem (I only guess, but I'm not shure) ssh is not able to authenticate (note that I put attention in executing and scheduling the batch with the proper, and same, user). Neither I'm able to obtain a log by redirecting the output of the batch in a file. The file is created but empty.
Any idea?

Bit confused about your question but sounds like you may need to use an addtional app that has the keys ready for the next login. Check out ssh-agent and see if that helps.

Post the contents of your script.

Brian

I'm not sure where you're really going with this...

What is the end result that you want? What is this script doing?

Is this something that can be accomplished with a cron job on the Linux machine?

Hi,
finally I solved the problem.
Just to be clear, my problem was to schedule a shall script from another host. Doesn't matter what the script do, whatever it do, the failure wasn't it does not work properly, but that it is not launched from remote, it does not start because the remote scheduler don't succeed to authenticate with ssh. I'know I could schedule it locally, but my need is to schedule it remotely by another application (CA unicenter TNG).
Well, I found the problem, and it was in the DOS batch.
When I manually launch the batch, it authenticates because I'm logged in, and ssh can read the environment variables that say it where find it's key. When I schedule it, also if I schedule the execution with the same user I use to login, for some reason ssh does not succeed to read his variables.
I don't know why, but the problem was this:
I set te variables in the batch using commands like
SET HOME=C:\docume~1\"home of the user"
SET HOMEPATH=C:\docume~1\"home of the user"
SET USERNAME="name of the user"
ssh.exe ......

Someone told me to write this way instead:

@SET HOME=C:\docume~1\"home of the user"
@SET HOMEPATH=C:\docume~1\"home of the user"
@SET USERNAME="name of the user"
ssh.exe ......

Note the "@" symbol before the "SET"

I don't really know what it means in DOS but work!!!

regards