rsh and cron

[ma...@matt.com]

Hello

I've been racking my brain to get this working and can't.

/bin/rsh cisco-router show version

From the command line, this works. The rsh executes the command and I
get the return value.

From cron, this does not work. I get one line of output, sometimes
none, and that's it.

I've tried running the command from a shell script and perl (with
STDOUT autoflushed), sleeping after the command, doing a wait ... no
luck.

Any ideas?

Thanks

--matt hempel

[Rev. Don Kool]

I'm not sure about interogating routers with "rsh" but I will
mention that "cron" runs with a much reduced set of shell parameters
than the command line. You would be best served to have "cron" call
a shell script (or program) that specifically set the environment
you need.

Hope this helps,
Don

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[Dan Richardson]

I would put in full path for "cisco-router".

<ma...@matt.com> wrote in message
news:3703f855....@news.infonent.com...

> Hello
>
> I've been racking my brain to get this working and can't.
>
> /bin/rsh cisco-router show version
>
> From the command line, this works. The rsh executes the command and I
> get the return value.
>
> From cron, this does not work. I get one line of output, sometimes
> none, and that's it.
>
> I've tried running the command from a shell script and perl (with
> STDOUT autoflushed), sleeping after the command, doing a wait ... no
> luck.
>

[gradobo...@gmail.com]

in cron use -n option
examle: rsh -n -l [USER] [HOST] [command] > [file]