Remote command

[Jim Knoble]

Circa 2005-12-05 12:36 dixit Pedro Drimel Neto:

: to consult how much space has on disk of server, the application send a 
: command to the server using the SSH Server to send the command but the 
: output of the command must be displayed on workstation screen... Do you 
: think this is possible ?

Yes:

    ssh server-name-or-ip-address 'df -k'

The result is displayed on the standard output.  Keep in mind that, if
you want to automate this without the user being prompted for a password
or passphrase every time, you must do this in conjunction with
public-key authentication and the ssh-agent.

Good luck.

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