RE: Shell scripting question

From: John Dailey <John.Dailey_at_concept-solutions.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 13:26:02 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.002BC624.20010223132622@fatcity.com>

Yep... that's what I get for taking someone's word. I got handed this problem after everybody else gave up on it... all I heard was "man pages didn't tell us anything"... HAHAHAHAHA <-- my insane laughter now

Anyway, thanks to all who responded to my query... Bill, Ganti, and the user below were all very helpful (especially Bill for putting up with me twice). BTW, before I saw this note, I got the .netrc file suggested by Ganti to work... fixed the problem nicely. Will probably just stay with that solution out of pride/embarrassment. Just had to insure the .netrc file had 0 bits for group and other permissions in the user's home directory.

Thanks again to the list.

John Dailey

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Sent: Friday, February 23, 2001 3:26 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

check out this link for some info
www.datafocus.com/docs/man1/rexec.1.asp

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Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 7:36 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Forgive me if this a stupid question and unrelated to Oracle but it pulls data from an Oracle database and i hope one of you scripting gurus can help me out ;-) It's on HP-UX 10.20.

I need to find a way within a script to handle a system generated prompt. I'm trying to use the REXEC command to run a batch script on an NT machine from UNIX. I've got the NT side set up with REXECD. When I run the REXEC command from the UNIX prompt, it prompts me for a password (for authentication on the NT machine I suppose). How do I script this process so I do not have to manually type in the password? Here's the command:

rexec nt_machine -l user e:\\top_dir\\ev00_07\\run\\batch_script.bat

after I run it, it prompts for a password; if I type the NT password in for the user, it works fine, so the syntax of the command is correct. I just want to automate this so I can schedule it instead of typing in the password manually.

I know I can use RSH instead and not worry about authentication, but the administrative overhead to get that implemented (security worries, etc) would carry me through to retirement age. I'm sure there is a simple way to do this, but I'm not seeing it. I try not to bother the list with questions if I can help it, but I'm stuck on this one and don't want to throw in the towel.

Thanks!

John Dailey
Consultant
Concept Solutions, LLC
*Your Business Intelligence Partner*
www.concept-solutions.com

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