Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi,

I have 2 users say user a and user b both in different unix boxes.

I thave to execute a script in user b via user a.

I tried using ssh for it but my script is not getting executed.

My script goes as:
from user a-
ssh userb@host " sh script.sh"
script.sh is placed in user b only.

Can anyone help me out here??

Thanks in advance...

It looks like it should be working. I gave it a try with two machines I have, and it worked. I tried it with and without the quotation marks, and also by making the file executable and adding a shebang line instead of calling the shell first. Every combination worked. It's kind of a dumb question, but have you tried "bash" instead of "sh"?

Does it work if you log into the other server and manually run the file with "sh filename"?

Hi,
Yes the script does gets executed when logged on from another server

I tried to debug the problem and i got the following error.

MY script :
ssh2 -d -l -n o2oenv8@10.40.6.172 "sh test4.sh"

Debug error

debug: Connecting to 10.40.6.172, port 22... (SOCKS not used)
debug: client supports 3 auth methods: 'publickey,keyboard-interactive,password'
debug: Ssh2Common/sshcommon.c:496: local ip = 10.40.6.172, local port = 61722
debug: Ssh2Common/sshcommon.c:498: remote ip = 10.40.6.172, remote port = 22
debug: Remote version: SSH-2.0-ReflectionForSecureIT_6.1.0.16
debug: Remote host key found from database.
debug: server offers auth methods 'publickey,password'.
debug: Constructing and sending signature in publickey authentication.
debug: Ssh2AuthPubKeyClient/authc-pubkey.c:1615: Public key authentication was successful.
Authentication successful.
debug: Requesting X11 forwarding with authentication spoofing.
rcmd: -l: Unknown host

test4.sh[9]: test: Specify a parameter with this command.
rcmd: -l: Unknown host
test4.sh[18]: test: Specify a parameter with this command.
rcmd: -l: Unknown host
test4.sh[28]: test: Specify a parameter with this command.
test4.sh[35]: test3.sh: not found.
debug: Got session close with exit_status=1


Can anyone help me out here??

Thanks in advance...

Is the question I asked unanswerable?? Or is it too simple??

Can anyone help??

What have you looked at, after reading those error messages you posted? Notice that you're getting multiple errors in your script when trying to run something called "test."

Also, are you attempting to run something that is graphical? I see something in the comments regarding X forwarding, but I don't see the -X or -Y flag in your command. Do "man ssh" to see which of those options you have available, and figure out if you need them for what you are doing.

Hi,
Try this:
1) add user a on the .ssh for ssh without password
2) ssh you@host << EOF
./script
EOF

Let me know if it's work.

It seems your test4.sh on 10.40.6.172, doesn't know the host you are trying to get to. So your login is successful, but the remote execution is broke.