in reply to Re^4: IO::Pty, Net::Telnet and SSH
in thread IO::Pty, Net::Telnet and SSH [SOLVED]

Hi,

Don't know if this will work for you, but I know people who solved this kind of issue writting small servers that provide system commands with RPC capabilities, using SOAP or XML-RPC for example.

I mean first try with what you are doing, if it works okay, but otherwise think about this:

  Caller.pl  <----XMLRPC/SOAP-----> Bridge.pl 
                                       /
                                       |
                                       /
      System/Native Program  <-----> Expect

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This way you can easily provide remote calls to existing programs that uses the STDIN without changing anything.

Regards,

fmerges at irc.freenode.net

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Re^6: IO::Pty, Net::Telnet and SSH
by gonza (Novice) on Nov 04, 2006 at 19:45 UTC

    Hi,

    While it is a good suggestion, it would be practically *impossible* to have this sort of thing approved in the company I work for. The idea is not to have to install a new daemon on each of the servers I manage, I'd like to work with what's already there (ie. SSH/Telnet).

    Besides, not all servers have expect.

    I'd love to have a look at the ssh_config of the person who got this Net::Telnet example working (was that you?). I can't think of what else it might be. Also, the OpenSSH version might be useful too, just incase it's a version thing.

    Thanks!
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