[plug] automating a task

[William Kenworthy]

check out "man expect".

Also something like unison or rsync may simplyfy some of the steps for
you.

BillK

On Mon, 2002-06-03 at 09:38, Jon L. Miller wrote:
> I would like to autmate a particular task to several servers we are
> responsible for and I would like to know if it's possible to do from a
> script on a main server.  Each server is accessed via ssh and a file
> needs to be copied to a certain location and several commands needs to
> run.  Since I'm not a script guru or programmer can this be done via  a
> script?  The tasks are 
> 1) login via ssh
> 2) scp a file from main server
> 3) stop a process
> 4) update the copied file
> 5) start the process
> 6) exit the server
> 7) goto next server.
> 8) repeat steps 1-7, until last server.
> 
> Problem I see deals with passing a password via the script, unless a
> variable can be set before hand.
> 
> Another question/issue can I create a account with the appropiate rights
> to handle this process instead of the root account.  By this, can I
> create a account make it a member of a group and assign the group the
> correct rights -- is this correct?
> 
> Any help in this area would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> TIA
> 
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