Hi Monks,

I'm looking for a cpan module which reads through some sort of file (eg a shell file) and executes system commands, and then checks for errors. It seems like this was what perl was built for:

Eg I might have a text file called update.sh, that looks like this:

apt-get -y install ffmpeg
cpan -i FFmpeg::Command
cp a.png b.png
svn co ......
tar ............
etc etc etc
[download]

You get the idea. What I would like is a perl module that can read through such a file and execute the system maintenance commands on a remote PC.

These are my limitations:

• It does not need to be synchronous (although it can be).
• It is running behind a router or firewall *(this means I probably can't log on to it), so it will have to periodically download a file with a series of commands in it from a convenient server.
• It should provide a log of activity that can be analysed or uploaded to a server later.

What do you think?

I am looking at Net::SSH::Perl and Sys::Manage::Desktops, but I'm not sure yet whether they meet my needs. How do you do this on your setups?

Thanks and regards

Steve

* = Update

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