Spire 01 enlightened us with: > So what I'd like to do is, from any given computer, log on to every > other computer, run a certain command (which normally outputs text > to the terminal), and store the output so I can use the aggregate > statistics later in the program.
I'd go for SSH indeed. > I would normally something along the lines of SSH to do it, but I > don't know what I would need to pull that off in Python. Easiest way would be the popen2 module. > There's also one complication: the systems could be Gentoo systems, > or they could be logged into Windows since they're dual booted. Then install Cygwin on the windows systems, and run the OpenSSH daemon there too. Sybren -- The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself? Frank Zappa -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list