On 2010.04.13 02:46, Chris Coggins wrote: > I need to copy a small config file from one server to another. I'm > generating the file on one server with a pretty complex script. I need > to put that file on another server for immediate user access via html. > I've tried just writing the file straight to the new server over the > network using absolute paths but it doesn't work. I'm thinking that I > can accomplish this instead through a perl-generated html page, to have > the script copy the file from its source server and put it locally for > use within the web page. > > What would the code look like to do this?
I would use SSH. Just make sure that you have set up password-less authentication, and that the user you are logging in with has permissions on the file. #!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; use Net::SCP qw( scp ); my $file = "/home/steve/blah.txt"; my $dest = "ste...@pearl.ibctech.ca:/web/site_dir"; my $scp = new Net::SCP; $scp->scp($file, $destination); Steve -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/