Remote Execution

issinho · 07-07-2005, 06:06 PM

What I'm looking for is a way to execute a script that resides on another system. I want to login in, execute the script, and logout. The Script (that I need to execute ) already resides on the remote machine.

If someone could come up with some help for me, I would really appreciate it. SSH is not a problem, by the way

Pcghost · 07-07-2005, 06:25 PM

If ssh is not a problem you should be set. SSH into the machine, type

./myscript.sh &

and logout. The & will start it as a background process, and should keep it running after you log out. Obviously replace "myscript.sh" with the name of your script.

issinho · 07-07-2005, 06:46 PM

Well, here's the deal.

I need to be able to execute the script remotely without going through the whole logging in mess.
The reason behind all this is that I have to execute this same script on multiple machines and I want an easier way of accomplishing it.

johnson_steve · 07-07-2005, 07:21 PM

I've got my firewall set up like that. I made a user dialout d added the script to it's .bash_proofile . Iset up ssh to se keys instead of passwords so I just:

ssh dialout@192.168.1.1

and it logs in and runs my script to connect and share the internet.

btw I mapped the command to a key on my keyboard so I can press one key and run the script on the remote computer.

issinho · 07-08-2005, 01:07 PM

Well, here's the deal:

the script is located on the remote computer.

I want to write a second script that will login, run the remote script, and log out.

Is this possible?

demian · 07-08-2005, 01:11 PM

Create a (passwordless) ssh key and bind it to the command you want to run (by prepending the key with "command=/path/to/your/script" in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys). Then run ssh -i ~/.ssh/key_you_created user@host.

alternatively you can go without keys and just run ssh user@host /path/to/your/script