How do I execute command on different server thru CGI?

[makarandmk]

Hi,

In my cgi script, I want to do telnet or rsh to some different host and run the commands on that host. How do I do that?

e.g. In my CGI script, there is one function called removeCase -

sub removeCase
{
01 I_WANT_TO_GO_TO_ONE_HOST;(want to do telnet/rsh)
02 WANT_TO_EXECUTE_SET_OF_COMMANDS_ON_THAT_HOSTMACHINE;
}

system("rsh $host&quot
or print `rsh $host`
is not working for me... Pl advise.

 

[133tcamel]

to telnet to some other server and run commands on it (interactively?), i guess you would need to spawn these using ther Perl's Expect module.. see here

http://search.cpan.org/author/RGIERSIG/Expect-1.15/Expect.pod

  my $exp = new Expect;
  $exp->spawn("telnet somehost; echo hi; ");

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cheers!
san

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