On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 17:28, David Simmons wrote: > We have a couple of servers that we want to push out periodic updates > to. We want to automate this as much as possible. > > We have password-less ssh working (thanks to the group for that!). So > using a shell script we can login in to a remote machine. But that is > all we can do. Once we login we are in a completely different shell > environment. My script stops executing at that point. Once I logout of > the remote server, my script continues running. > > Is it possible to continue feeding commands from the ssh shell script I > wrote to the remote machine? For example, if my script is something > like: > > ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] > cd /usr/local > echo "some new command" >> therefile > logout > exit 1 > > How can I get everything past the ssh command to run on the remote > machine? Is it possible?
I did this in Python, but not shell. Use Popen3; you can open a connection, it will return three file handles, stdin, stdout, and stderr. You can then write and read commands to these. I did this on a network with HP-UX and Linux clients. It worked perfectly. If interested, I can post my script example for it. It is one of the things I use in my sysadmin w/Python class. :) In shell, you wind up needing to do it the way you do with rcp: sending each command in it's own connection. Or use expect. :( -- Bill Anderson RHCE #807302597505773 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
