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Old 10-28-2010
Sending commands to a remote server

Hi I have managed to connect to a remote server via ssh, but nothing will actually send through to the remote server screen through my script...it waits until i am back to the main terminal before it outputs anything.

Can anyone tell me how to get commands to send through to the remote server?

Thanks
Hopper
# 2  
Old 10-28-2010
when you try and interactive connection to the remote machine using ssh, are you prompt for entering login+password or not ?
If not, (and if you still can get connected to the remote machine) then it means that the authentication keys exchange is correctly setup so you should be able to run it using your script.
Otherwise you should add your public authentication key to the authorized_keys file of the remote machine and check that ssh is configured properly.
# 3  
Old 10-28-2010
Yes, with ssh I usually start trying to get this running on both ends:
Code:
ssh2 localhost pwd

If I want passwordless login and complete trust, I copy the entire $HOME/.ssh*/ to the remote $HOME.

If $HOME is a mount onto multiple systems, that dir $HOME/.ssh/ or $HOME/ssh2/ is moved; see "man ssh" and "man sshd_config 5" (add 2 after ssh if you have made it up to the better ssh2), but usually see /etc/ssh2/ssh2_config under UserConfigDirectory.

That makes the keys match, although it also breaks localhost/127.0.0.1 entries until you remove the old system localhost/127.0.0.1 line in authorized_users or whatever -- it tells you.
# 4  
Old 10-29-2010
It always helps to know what command you typed.

Maybe try the "-n" parameter to "ssh". This often cures this type of problem.
# 5  
Old 10-29-2010
The -n is a speed up and simplification, as when there is no input stdin only output, ssh does not need to fork off a child or thread to watch stdin. Some commands get very confusing without it, like:
Code:
ssh2 somehost ls -lt /xyz | pg

Both 'ssh2' and 'pg' will be reading /dev/tty, so 'pg' will seem unresponsive half the time, because 'ssh2' does not know 'ls' does not read stdin.
 
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