Remote login help needed

[Rudi Martin]

Hi there

I have a menu option where I have different databases on different servers. I want to create one menu that can access accross the servers and then if it finds a certain database , run the menu for that db.

This is an example out of the menu script :
3) if [ -f /mnt/mfg/live/a646/mfg9-0a.d1 ]
then
/home/jca/bin/menu03
else
echo "Connecting to 2nd server, please wait . . ."
rlogin a741s002
fi ;;

This works fine , but I want to be able to execute , for example /home/jca/bin/menu03 on the second server as well... How do I do this ?

Thanks

[Mark Grant]

As long as you don't do any cursor positioning in your menu, you can just use "remsh".

"remsh host:/path/to/menu"

You can also use "ssh" if you are not on a trusted system"

[Hoefnix]

Hi,

Copy the scripts across the servers that you like to use it on.
Then edit the .rhosts file for the user that the script should execute.(/home/user1/.rhosts)

Put the servers and remote user in the .rhosts on all your servers like:
server1 user1
server2 user1
server3 user1

Then you shoukd be able to execute the scripts using remsh:
remsh server2 /path/menu03

HTH,
Peter