Re: ot: actioning a script on a remote machine

<quote who="Paul Nevai">

>> but, if I'm 'somewhere' I'd like to connect Palm over 3G or GPRS, and
>> cause it to execute the script, does that makes sense ?

> If you are an expert on linux and shell programming, then this is very
> much doable. Install linux on your PC, run procmail, and create a script
> that reacts, say, to subject lines of e-mails, e.g.

> Subject: password "linux command"
> Then e-mail this to your linux system from your palm.
> The linux command could be also a shell script.

thanks, Paul

that's xactly what I was aiming at, years ago, I recall a fellow in
Budapest published some cmds/setup to do precisely that, execute arbitrary
stuff and get output as email

I need to look up the procmail, my email is in a 'virtual user', not a
'linux user', and, AFAIK, procmail looks at /home/usernamesomething,
whereas, mine is in /var/mail/vhost/vnamesomething

I think I'll try with +subaddressing for the email name

might even try to create a 'vcal' file for date/time, then, once on the
Palm, I can use my (ok, John's) pscripts to massage the data




-- 
Voytek



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