Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I'm wondering if there's a way to send a command periodically to remote server through a script.

Right now I have this:

Code:

keepLooping=1
ssh user@domain
while (( keepLooping == 1 ))
do
  echo a
  sleep 3
done

but what this does is ssh to the server, and only when the connection is closed do the following commands run. What I'm trying to achieve is to automate me SSHing to the server and entering a command every xx seconds.

Any suggestions? Thanks!

I'm not quite sure what you're trying to do but your while loop is in the wrong place.

Code:
keepLooping=1
while (( keepLooping == 1 ))
do
ssh user@domain
echo a
if [ ?? ] ; then
do something
else
set keeplooping to 1
fi
sleep 3[/CODE]

If I understand you correctly, you want to run a new ssh command every three seconds, regardless of the fact that the previous ssh command could have taken more than three seconds to complete? So run them in the background.

Code:

while true; do
  ssh user@domain echo a &
  sleep 3
done

The "&" there runs the command in the background.

I assume that "echo a" is the command you want to run on the remote server, and that you had the syntax for this wrong (too).

Unless you are running a real-time operating system, there is no guarantee that "sleep 3" will not take more than 3 seconds, of course.

Edit: Upon rereading your question, I guess that the real problem was really how to pass the remote command to the server over ssh. Well, I coincidentally seem to have answered that, too. If you don't want the ssh to run in the background, just take out the "&".