[ale] How to get Unix to KickOff an NT Process

[Jonathan Glass (IBB)]

Ahh, but you forgot.

...which causes blue screen of death, which causes Big Brother
(www.bb4.org) to send email/page to NT sys-admin, who comes in, reboots,
and starts process for you.

Seriously, I met someone at RHCE training that had something like this
going. He setup an SSH server on the WinNT4 box, and Perl.  Apparently,
Perl has an interface to allow control of services (I haven't tried, so
don't ask me), so he wrote perl scripts to do all his admin duties on
the WinNT4 boxes, and they were fired off by the Linux box.  Interesting
conversation, but he lost me several times talking Perl.  :)

Jonathan Glass
Systems Support Specialist II
Institute for Bioengineering & Bioscience
Georgia Institute of Technology
404.385.0127 

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-admin at ale.org [mailto:ale-admin at ale.org] On Behalf Of Michael
To: ale at ale.org
D. Hirsch
Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 4:56 PM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] How to get Unix to KickOff an NT Process


On Monday 03 February 2003 03:12 pm, Armsby John-G16665 wrote:
> One of the IT guys here came with a question.... He has a cron job on 
> a unix box which needs to start a process on an NT box.  Apparently 
> there is either no trust in the NT cron or the NT guys refuse to 
> schedule a job...
>
> Assuming there is no telnet capability on the NT box, the only idea I 
> could come up with is that, IF there were a web server on the NT box..
>
> The unix box via a LWP perl script could invoke a CGI script on the NT

> Box.  That CGI script would start the necessary NT process.
>
> Anyone got a more elegant solution??

You mean something like:

1. Linux system (a)  sends big print job to printer (b)
2. Weight of paper in printer tray (c) causes tray to break, falling on
3. the keyboard (d) placed below (c) 4. pressing the Enter key (e)
causing 5. program (f) to run on 6. NT box (g) attached to keyboard (d).

Hope that helps,

Michael
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