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Old 07-17-2008
Question fork and exec

I need to ssh to a remote server and run my script there. This is my script.

$ssh = "ssh username@host";
$cmd = "$ssh 'cd <my dir> && < sudo Run_exe>'";

my $pid = fork;
if ($pid == 0){
exec $cmd;
}

When I run this I get:
pccons_getchar: got r == 0

Last edited by looza; 07-17-2008 at 11:16 PM..
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Old 07-18-2008
assuming perl........

not sure if this is the source of your problem, but the @ symbol is being interpolated as an array because you have it inside a double-quoted string, use single-quotes:

$ssh = 'ssh username@host';

also, when you use exec in perl it does not return back to the perl script, although I am not sure what happens when you run it in a forked process. Try system() or qx//. qx// returns process output back, system() does not. Look them up in the perl documentation.

Next time put Perl in your subject line if that is what you are using.

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