ssh to server and change directories

[neonep]

Hi everyone,

For various debugging tasks, I regularly need to log into 3 different servers and look at 2 different log files on each. It would be awesome to have a script that would open gnome-terminal with multiple tabs ssh'ed to different servers and cd each tab to a directory of my choosing. Does anyone have a script that can do this? I have public/private key authentication set up, so I don't have to enter any passwords.

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I found the following script 1 and came up with script 2. Both look promising but they have their flaws.

1.

konsole --script -e ssh user@server1 &
sleep 1
KONSOLE=`dcop | grep konsole | tail -n 1`
SESSION=`dcop $KONSOLE konsole newSession`
sleep 1
dcop $KONSOLE $SESSION sendSession "user@server2"
sleep 1
dcop $KONSOLE $SESSION sendSession "cd /some/folder"

I really don't understand this script although it logs into two servers and changes directories for one. How can I make it do the same for one more server?

2.

gnome-terminal --tab-with-profile=default -t server:log -e "ssh user@server1" --tab-with-profile=default -t server:log -e "ssh user@server2"

This logs into different servers but I don't know how to make it change directories.

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Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

 

[shauber]

I like TCL/Expect for this kind of thing. It's meant for writing interactive scripts. I use it for automated config changes on my Cisco switches.

The commands are simple:

call "telnet 192.168.0.1"
wait "user:"
send "foo"
wait "password:"
send "foobar"
wait "cisco >"
send "set port blah blah blah"
wait "cisco >"

This is psuedo code but it's close to the actual syntax

shauber

 

[yai]

why don't you use the syslog mechanism and let them all log to a central syslog server.