Putty Problems

JuJuYNWA

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated....

Im trying to ssh onto a node using putty through the windows command line and run a few commands.

If i type,

putty -ssh -load LOG 10.xx.xx.xx -l username -pw password

(LOG is a Saved session that writes log files)

I get onto the node in question and can manually type in the commands i need to.

So now i want to run in these commands automatically, so i thought i could type;

putty -ssh -load LOG 10.xx.xx.xx -l username -pw password -m Command.txt

Where Command.txt is a one line file that contains a command that i want to run, ie;

~~~~Command.txt~~~~
random_command
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

However when i do this nothing happens! I checked the Log file and it looks like this:

~~~~Logfile.log~~~~
=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~= PuTTY log 2008.03.23 01:57:38 =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=
login as: username
username@10.xx.xx.xx's password:
bash: random_command: command not found

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Does anybody have any suggestions? I've tried a few variations but my head is completely wrecked at the moment.

Cheers in advance.

IRLConor

Is random_command in your $PATH on the machine?

What is the value of $PATH when running the command via -m?

Try specifying the full path to random_command (e.g. /usr/bin/random_command). This is probably a good idea anyway because you never know when you might change your $PATH in the future.

cgarvey

Another vote for the 'use full path', because when you login interactively your path could be set (e.g. in ~/.bashrc) to a different path to the system default, or what not.

machalla

Have you looked at plink?

http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/0.58/htmldoc/Chapter7.html

Try something like this from the command line in windows.
C:\Program Files\PuTTY\plink.exe "192.168.1.19 -l bob ./run.sh"

Should run the remote script run.sh. I have used plink to run scripts on remote scripts in the past from windows. Its part of the putty tools on their homepage.

Might be some help.

JuJuYNWA

Thanks very much for the help guys. It did indeed work when i put in the full path.

Cheers,

J:)