On 0, Michael Heironimus <mkh01@earthlink.net> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 12:12:24PM +0200, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: > > I need to have a little daemon wich runs as root and receaves commands wich > > it executes and then > > sends back the reult code of the commands. It should be very simple - no > > fancy stuff. > > I think perl might be overkill for this, unless you want to use it as a > project for learning perl sockets. You can do this with ssh or rsh > easily enough. rsh requires a ~/.rhosts entry, ssh requires either > entering a password or using RSA/DSA authentication. > > If you give ssh a command to run, ssh will return the exit code of the > remote command (at least with my OpenSSH 3.4p1 install). With rsh you'll > have to add a "; echo $?" to the remote command and read the value from > stdout. Come now, rsh is surely almost as bad as what the OP proposed... Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide "If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight." - George Gobol Get my GPG public key: https://pinky.its.adelaide.edu.au/~tkcook/tom.cook-at-adelaide.edu.au
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