I'm trying to complete a script that goes through all the nodes/hosts on a list, and runs a ssh command on them, if this is _not_ the write way to do this, please let me know. anyhow, backticks or system both won't work... here is the broken script.. can you suggest anything to fix it or a different method? 
#!/usr/bin/perl

open (INFILE, "</root/automate/system.list") || die "could not open sy
+stem.list: $!";
@system_list = <INFILE>;
close INFILE;

foreach $system (@system_list){
`ssh $system date`;
#date could be substitute with any unix command like pwd,ls,etc.
}

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edited: Tue Jun 24 14:47:08 2003 by jeffa - code tags

In reply to simple iterate and run cmd script by patris

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