On Tue, 21 Jun 2005, Rob Sharp wrote: > Found this whilst reading about 'iPod slurping' and remembered this thread. > > http://www.sharp-ideas.net/archives/000049.html > > "The premise of RPC-Mail is simple. Construct an e-mail message that > has a command that you want one of your remote PCs to execute. Send > the e-mail to a special account that is only used by RPC-Mail. Have > the remote PC set up with a scheduled task or cron job to periodically > execute the application RPC-Mail.py. When RPC-Mail.py executes, it > parses all of the subject lines and message bodies of e-mail messages > that it finds. If the message body contains a special passphrase, > RPC-Mail executes the subject line as a command, and returns standard > output as an e-mail message." > > Might be of use to you.
You mean like uux from the UUCP suite? Vaguely remember something like this:- $ uux 'remote.host.name.com.au!netstat -ln' In the beginning there was cp, then there was uucp (Unix-to-Unix copy) via serial port & analogue modems, then there was TCP/IP mid 1970's, then there was UUCP over TCP/IP, then there was SMTP in the mid 1980's. UUCP was fully redundant, could handle push or pull from either end, was transactional and you always knew whether the mail/files got there or not and exactly what went on with remote execution. I would say RPC via UUCP would be an excellent choice for intermittent links. We used it for EDI gateways at Corporate Express (ie transfer of all orders and invoices to/from the mainframe). I think they've now stepped up to building a proper RPC type interface as it became necessary for more real-time interaction - but that required significant effort. If you want your system hacked however, consider this in /etc/aliases yourname: | grep ^Subject: | cut -c8- | bash Note that most default sendmail installations will at least whinge about this (at least the ones released this century). -- ---<GRiP>--- Grant Parnell - SLUG President EverythingLinux services - the consultant's backup & tech support. Web: http://www.elx.com.au/support.php We're also busybits.com.au and linuxhelp.com.au and everythinglinux.com.au. Phone 02 8756 3522 to book service or discuss your needs or email us at paidsupport at elx.com.au ELX or its employees participate in the following:- OSIA (Open Source Industry Australia) - http://www.osia.net.au AUUG (Australian Unix Users Group) - http://www.auug.org.au SLUG (Sydney Linux Users Group) - http://www.slug.org.au LA (Linux Australia) - http://www.linux.org.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
