Remote script execution with Python ...

[Gillou]

rsh is in cygwin distribution (www.cygwin.com) so... this script should work
with any python version on any Win32 system if the client script is launched
from cygwin bash.
"Ben Hutchings" <ben.hutchings at roundpoint.com> a écrit dans le message news:
ulmqil8qu.fsf at roundpoint.com...
> "Robert Gahan" <gahanr at gofree.indigo.ie> writes:
>
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I have installed python on a Windows PC and I am looking to
> > remotely execute a script on a UNIX box from a python program.
> > I need to be able to pipe a "y" to stdin also. Is there a windows
> > equivalent of the unix "rexec" that could help me ?. What is the
> > most appropriate way of doing this ?.
>
> You might be able to do this with something like:
>
>     script_in, script_out = os.popen2("rsh otherhost -c myscript")
>     print >>script_in 'y'
>     result = script_out.readlines()
>
> Windows 2000 includes an rsh client but I'm not sure about other
> versions of Windows.  You might want to use ssh instead for greater
> security.
>
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