Batch files for ssh/linux...

[boomam]

Hi.

Does anyone know of a way to run a script that'll auto connect to a server via SSH (smoothwall), login and then perform a few commands, then close the SSH session.

 

Thanks in advance all. .

[Geoff]

First off, you need to swap ssh keys with the remote system so you can login without a password prompt.

 

HOWTO: set up ssh keys

 

At that point you can either run a single SSH command to run the script on the remote system.

 

ssh user@system /usr/bin/somescript.sh

 

Or run the commands over SSH one after the other.

 

ssh user@system /usr/games/fortune | /sbin/wall
ssh user@system /sbin/reboot

[OutToLunch]

If you mean from Windows to the Linux machine, I'd just do it with PLink the command line driven aspect of Putty...

 

Using the command-line connection tool Plink

 

Should do everything quite happily.

[dhicks]

Does anyone know of a way to run a script that'll auto connect to a server via SSH (smoothwall), login and then perform a few commands, then close the SSH session.

 

As pointed out above, on Windows plink connecting with a key file should do it. I've actually had occasion to write a utility that does pretty much what you describe above, for which I used Python:

 

for fileLine in os.popen("PuTTY\\plink -batch -i PuTTY\\xenConsole.ppk root@" + dirName + " cat /proc/mdstat").readlines():
line = fileLine[:-1]
reResult =  re.search(" *(.*) blocks \[(.*)/(.*)\] \[(.*)\]", line)
if reResult:
	RAIDState = reResult.group(4)

 

 

The above connects to the server and gets the state of the mdadm RAID array, sorting through the answer with a regular expression to parse out the data needed.

 

--

David Hicks

[tom_newton]

Thanks for the answers folks... now I am wondering what the OP was wanting and how we might officially support what he's after?