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Re: big enormous shell script - to remotely execute .exes on machines
- From: Vince <jhary at unsane dot co dot uk>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 11:26:24 +0000
- Subject: Re: big enormous shell script - to remotely execute .exes on machines
- References: <14042448.post@talk.nabble.com>
airzonk wrote:
> Hi all:
>
> I need to write a shell script that does the following:
>
> * Takes a list of machines by IP address and mounts the C$ share
> * For each of these machines, executes an .exe on the *remote* host, not the
> machine I am running the script from. I am not sure if this is even
> possible; these machines do not have the cygwin dll or environment on them.
>
> * This executable causes the remote thin clients to reboot into write filter
> enable mode - which allows changes to be made. It needs to sleep for about
> 5 minutes after the last machine has the remote .exe executed.
>
> * After the sleep, it needs to (re) mount each machine's C$ share and copy
> an identical set of files over to each directory.
>
> I think the kicker here is having the .exe run on the *remote* machine, not
> the local one. Anyone know if this is possible ?
>
Easiest way I can think of would be to use psexec
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/Utilities/PsTools.mspx
Vince
> Thanks -
> Gabe
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