Executing .exe on a remote Windows machine

[Chris Rebert]

On Thursday, November 8, 2012, Kevin Holleran wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 9:43 AM, Kevin Holleran <kdawg44 at gmail.com<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'kdawg44 at gmail.com');>
> > wrote:
>
>> My goodness.... psexec.
>>
>> thanks.... can't believe that didn't come to me...
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 9:31 AM, Tim Golden <mail at timgolden.me.uk<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'mail at timgolden.me.uk');>
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> On 08/11/2012 14:25, Kevin Holleran wrote:
>>> > Good morning,
>>> >
>>> > I wrote a python script to connect out to a bunch of my remote machines
>>> > that are running some software.  It modifies a bunch of the config
>>> files
>>> > for me.  After making the changes, I need to restart the software.  The
>>> > way to do this is to call an .exe passing in a argument 'restart'
>>> >  Simply restarting services is NOT acceptable & rebooting the machine
>>> > isn't either.
>>> >
>>> > I was trying to find a way to simply call the .exe on the remote
>>> machine
>>> > with subprocess but how can I get it to execute on the remote machine?
>>> >  These machines do not have SSH.
>>>
>>> WMI can usually help with this (although there are limitations on what
>>> you can execute via WMI). Also people recommend sysinternals' psexec.
>>> (I've never tried it myself).
>>>
>>> TJG
>>> --
>>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
>>>
>>
>>
>
> OK, not quite resolved yet....
>
> My code....
>
> [code]
> try:
>             print("Attempting to restart Splunk...")
>             subprocess.call(["psexec", "\\\\" + host, "'c:\\Program
> Files\\Splunk\\bin\\splunk.exe'", "restart"])
> [/code]
>
> & am getting:
>
> [output]
> Attempting to restart Splunk...
>
> PsExec v1.98 - Execute processes remotely
> Copyright (C) 2001-2010 Mark Russinovich
> Sysinternals - www.sysinternals.com
>
>
> PsExec could not start 'c:\Program Files\Splunk\bin\splunk.exe' restart on
> [IP_ADDRESS]:
> The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.
> [/output]
>
> I am simply trying to restart the splunk forwarder instance....
>
> Any thoughts??
>

Remove the apostrophes surrounding the path to Splunk's executable. The
subprocess module already takes care of the quoting for you, so the
apostrophes are unnecessary and are being interpreted literally.


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Chris
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