yeah, I'm seeing that rsh is sort of a pain. I'm actually looking at the Telnet module which seems to be the best utility for my needs. But, what I'm trying to figure out is a way to capture the return code from a script that Telnet executed. Not sure if this is even possible or not ...
Comment on Re: Re: Pros/cons of testing on remote systems?
This might be overkill, but you could try creating a SOAP::Lite application. I wrote an article on securing SOAP applications a while back (here) which should get you started.
---- I wanted to explore how Perl's closures can be manipulated, and ended up creating an object system by accident.
-- Schemer
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