jumping (not a redirect exactly) to another platform cgi

[durell]

This is the situation.

1) A Perl script is running on an NT Box from the command line of the console (it is on a timer). It has no output only updates a database... so far no problems...Script runs ok!!

2) BUT on certain conditions...it needs to start another sctipt (CGI) on a UNIX box. The UNIX sctipt also has no output..just copies some files around and exits.

Question: How do I get this UNIX cgi script to run?

 

[yauncin]

well you can open up a rsh/telnet/ssh session and run the command. I believe there are modules for each.... or you can do some socket programming....

 

[durell]

the socket approach seems way to complicated for what I want...how would I go about the rsh/telnet/ssh session approach.

 

[yauncin]

Well I know there is an SSH module but I have never used any of these methods myself. I would just open up a session on a remote machine and execute the script with a shell command. I'm sure others here have done such things before. Maybe one of them can give you some pointers.