SSH, remote login, and command output

[Sybren Stuvel]

Spire 01 enlightened us with:
> So what I'd like to do is, from any given computer, log on to every
> other computer, run a certain command (which normally outputs text
> to the terminal), and store the output so I can use the aggregate
> statistics later in the program. 

I'd go for SSH indeed.

> I would normally something along the lines of SSH to do it, but I
> don't know what I would need to pull that off in Python.

Easiest way would be the popen2 module.

> There's also one complication: the systems could be Gentoo systems,
> or they could be logged into Windows since they're dual booted.

Then install Cygwin on the windows systems, and run the OpenSSH daemon
there too.

Sybren
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