Connect to remote machine using perl

Hi,

I have requirement where in I need to run a perl script remotely on the other machine. Has anyone implemented this thing wherein from one machine you login to othe machine and run the a perl script over there. Any perl code for this?

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jkm

You didnt mention your environment but if you are on Unix then you can use

rsh hostname command

as part of your command you can run perl script.

kshitiz

I'm on a Windows 2003 server and I have to run the script on a Linux box. Will the same command work in this scenario as well. Doesn't I have to login to the Linux box before issuing the command?

Adam Stoller

I'm on a Windows 2003 server and I have to run the script on a Linux box. Will the same command work in this scenario as well. Doesn't I have to login to the Linux box before issuing the command?

You can investigate (research, google, whatever) writing client/server programs in Perl if you need to automate not only the script process but the remote connection.

Otherwise - your description of your requirements is rather vague.

nipper

Since it is a Linux box, it should have Apache. You could change the IPL to a CGI and then run it through your browser.

Some security would probably be warranted, but that is easy with .htaccess

Overall this would be pretty easy.

Andy

kaalraa

Moreover, if you are thinking to change from perl script to CGI you can use LWP::UserAgent for remote access. Just search more on google.

kshitiz

Thanks all for your responses,

Actually our requirement was such that we need to send a file from one server to other. And the other server has to process those files in some fashion. Our initial approach was that from the first server send the files to the second server & somehow run a perl script that will process them.
The problem we were facing was how to run a perl script remotely from first server.

Now we have changed our approach. We will run a daemon kind of script on second server which will continuously check for files under specific directory and process them whenever new files are transferred to it.

I hope this works. If anybody has any further inputs to this approach, it will be much appreciated.

jkm

Kshitiz,
How are you sending the file from one machine to another? If you are using Opendeploy then you can leverage DNR to run the perl script.

To run a daemon process to copy file and execute a script sounds over kill Smiley Happy

i may use the LWP agent and write the file on the destination server and then run the script.

kshitiz

Yes, we had thought of using DnR as well. But this might not be applicable in our architecture. The thing is that the receipient server of files has again to redeploy the files to some other machine. You can think of it has multi-tiered deployment. But before deploying the fiels to third machine it has to connect through VPN. Thus at that time it will get disconnected from the original server. And because the original sender server is waiting for the script triggered through DnR to complete, it will get failed.