This is commonly done by SSH (e.g. http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ ) , rsh, or rexec. The latter two are included with Windows but are typically frowned upon (or disallowed altogether) by system administrators because of security concerns.
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Started 4 months ago by Wim Venema
Hi,
We have an ERP system running on Compaq Tru64 UNIX V5.1A (Rev. 1885).
I am able to run ERP commands (Macro recorded script files to invoke e.g. the invoice process) from the Unix command shell.
To automise this, I'd like to run these commands from a remote Windows application e.g. SQL Server (with VB Scripts).
Does anyone have an idea how to do this?
Thanks in advance,
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n_i replied 4 months ago
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kitaman replied 3 months, 3 weeks ago
You might also consider having the VB Script create a set of instructions for a Unix cron job to process, and drop the VBS instructions into a shared folder/directory
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Wim Venema replied 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Hi Kitaman,
Can you please provide me with examples?
Thanks in advance,
Wim
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kitaman replied 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Lets assume that you have some common directory/folder, using either NFS or Samba, or even ftp.
On the Windows side have the application create a request file containing named pairs as:
APPLICATION=invoicing\; export APPLICATION
DATE=20090915\; export DATE
NAME="John Doe"\; export NAME
The back slashes are required to escape any unix meta characters. The quotes are required for ...
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