*NIX Script Executing from Windows

chrisk5527 · 05-01-2003, 03:59 PM

By chance, does anyone know of a program that would allow a windows user to execute a script on a *NIX server? I'm thinking something along the lines of a client/server application, but I'm not sure if its out there, and if it is, I cant find it.

Thanks
Chris

Tinkster · 05-01-2003, 04:05 PM

Cygwin -> rsh?

Cheers,
Tink

david_ross · 05-01-2003, 04:09 PM

Telnet or ssh could do it too if you mean executing it "on the server".

chrisk5527 · 05-01-2003, 05:09 PM

I need some way of automating a login to a UNIX box from Windows to run a shell script that I wrote.

david_ross · 05-01-2003, 05:14 PM

Use putty on windows to ssh to the linux box with a passwordless login using rsa.

Simple

chrisk5527 · 05-01-2003, 05:34 PM

Its not a Linux box, its a Sun box without SSH installed. Is there really any other solution without installing SSH?

Tinkster · 05-01-2003, 09:11 PM

install cygwin, use rsh :P

Cheers,
Tink

bimble · 05-02-2003, 05:29 AM

Could you run the script as CGI-BIN from www page?; click button, run script!

Or, like I sometimes do:

Put a <!--#exec cmd="/path/to/script"> into a SHTML page (Sun Webserver has SSI support, you just need to set the x-bit-hack to 'on'); load the page, run the script!

Admittedly you'd only get permissions of the server daemon but if it's not a security problem you cound run the server as root