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[nybz]

I there a way to have a servlet fire an executable on a remote box? I want the user to push a "go" button on an html form which comes to the servlet - which in turn initiates a job on a remote machine (such as cmd.exe). If this is possible, please help me with the key points - mainly, getting the command from the servlet to the remote box.

 

[sedj]

OS's involved ?

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Free Database Connection Pooling Software

http://www.primrose.org.uk

 

[nybz]

The OS is Windows 2000. The idea is to provide an admin with a Web browser an HTML page where they have a link that
accesses a servlet (remotely). The servlets job would be to open a CMD.exe on the server (machine) itself with some parameter - like running a batch file. Hence, running the command remotely via HTML.

 

[sedj]

You realise that if this machine is accessible on a WAN (ie internet) then this is a MAJOR security risk.

Anyway, if you want to run a command from Java :

String cmd = "dir";
Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("cmd /c " +cmd);
p.waitFor();

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http://www.primrose.org.uk

 

[nybz]

Thanks sedj - you rock. Acknowledged about the risk...