NAME

Script::Remote - Exceute Your Scripts Over SSH (And Pass Data Along)

SYNOPSIS

# CASE 1: Simple case
# Write a script first (say, foo.pl)
use strict;
print "Hello, World!\n";

# Elesewhere, in a different file
use Script::Remote;
my $remote = Script::Remote->new(
  script   => 'foo.pl',
  hostname => 'some.host.com',
);
$remote->run;

#### CASE 2: With Data ####
use strict;
print "Hello, World from $config->{myname}\n";

$remote->run(
  variable => 'config',
  data     => { myname => "Daisuke Maki" },
);

DESCRIPTION

This is a stupid little hack that makes running scripts remotely a *bit* easier.

Please note that this is full of potential security gotchas. We generate code on the fly. This is bad. We're basically doing a remote eval(), which is just bad bad bad. DO NOT USE THIS MODULE if you expect people with no or minimal knowledge about how this kind of distributed system hacks work.

Having said that, for tests, this could be handy. All you need is a ssh-enabled set of machines (you probably want public key auth, too), and two scripts: the script you want to run remotely, and a script that will drive those script(s).

To run a single script on a single remote machine, simply say:

use Script::Remote;

Script::Remote->new(
  script => 'foo.pl',
  hostname => 'my.host.name'
)->run();

If you want to run the same script on multiple hosts, you need to tell Script::Remote to not block on wait(), so you need to use the no_wait parameter:

my $script = 'foo.pl';
my @scripts;
my $data = ...; # some shared data
foreach my $host (@hosts) {
  my $remote = Script::Remote->new(
    script => $script,
    hostname => $host,
    no_wait => 1,
  );
  $remote->run(data => $data);
  push @scripts, $remote;
}

$_->wait_child for @scripts;

METHODS

new

script

The name of the script to execute

hostname

The hostname to ssh to

username

The username to use for ssh

no_wait

If true, the object will not block when run() is called. In that case you should use wait_child() to wait for the child process to stop

perl

The full path to the remote perl executable. We use the *local machine's* value of $^X by default.

ssh

An alternate path to your ssh binary. We attempt to find one by default, but if we don't, you should be setting this or $Script::Remote::DEFAULT_SSH.

ssh_args

List of extra ssh command line arguments

TODO

Decide what to do with the output from the ssh child. Currently we simple dump everything to STDOUT (ideas, anybody?)

AUTHOR

Copyright (c) 2008 Daisuke Maki <daisuke@endeworks.jp>

LICENSE

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

See http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html