In perl, how do you ssh from windows to a linux server? Not from a command line.
I'm writing a program that will ssh to a linux server from a windows machine.
I know this is a very small description, but I don't know any other way to describe what I'm asking. It's very simple.
UPDATE: If there is a language that is much simplier and/or easy to use, please let me know.
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I'm running windows XP on my dev machine. I need to create a telnet server to test an application locally. Is there any program or application that I could use to do that? The only thing I need is for my program to be able to connect on port 23 to my dev machine, send some data, and for the receive data to be printed/echoed out/logged somehow by the receiving program.
Any ideas?
It sounds like what you may really need is something that emulates the echo daemon in Unix. Not sure if Cygwin has something like that, but I'd look there first.
If it's really a telnet server that you need, you can use PC Telnetd (http://www.tamasoft.co.jp/en/telnetd/) or you can set up telnetd using Cygwin. There are surely other options as well.
It sounds like you can use netcat (as far as I remember, there are several different versions of netcat. The link is the one that is used for Fedora). There might be a cygwin version available readily, that would have been my first choice if working on windows.
I keep running into issues with a .bat script I want to write to automate some tasks related to the setup of my PHP application. I can't for instance do simple wget to download files and so on.
I hear that by installing Cygwin, the user should be able to have access to all linux related commands, so my script will run without problems.
Another way is to get the user to download each GnuWin32 version of the commands I'm using in my script, like wget, gzip, diff but this sounds like a lot more trouble than installing a single Cygwin program.
Can someone recommend the easiest approach here.. Is Cygwin the standard or are there easier alternatives.
I haven't heard of alternatives to Cygwin, and from my personal experience, it seems like it would perfectly suit your needs. You'll just need to launch your script from Cygwin's shell instead of Windows' prompt, but that hardly is a problem.
If you are having problems with batch files then rather than install Cygwin, I'd look at PowerShell and WScript.
Hard to answer, because the way you phrase your question seems to imply that the person answering must have absolute knowledge about what is easiest and that there's not any alternatives.
Among the people I know Cygwin is the standard for getting a posix like environment under windows.
I'd go for cygwin.
I am looking for a way in Linux to run a batch script on a remote Windows machine. I already searched some forums and the Internet and found e.g. this question.
It seems that the easiest way so far is using ssh. But do Linux or Windows also offer some built-in tools to solve this problem (something like at-command for Linux-to-Windows)?
Have a look at this. It seems to be the linux counter part to the Windows Sysinternals PsExec tool.
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Another option is to use ad-hoc services for remote execution, e.g. Nagios NRPE for windows. It is not exactly what the developers had in mind, but it can be (ab)used in this way.
I've found a few (unfortunately, they are bookmarked at home and I'm at work, so no links), but I was wondering if anyone had any opinions about any of them (love it, hate it, whatever) so I could make a good decision. I think I'm going to use Cygwin for my Unix commands on Windows, but I'm not sure how well that's going to work, so I would love for alternatives and I'm sure there are people out there interested in this who aren't running Cygwin.
These work very well for me: http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/.
Cygwin is not so good on Vista or 64 bit, so I stopped using it a while back.
I use Cygwin, but I have used the Berkley Utilities in the past. They worked well enough, if you are used to DOS and you just want the commands. There are some alternatives listed at TinyApps.
Maybe you could also consider running a command line version of Linux in a virtual machine? Colinux is also an option, but it's immature.
Powershell is what you are looking for, it contains aliases for a lot of UNIX commands and a lot more besides.
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UnxUtils isn't updated as often and isn't as complete as Cygwin but runs natively just like any other Windows command line utility.
Cygwin acts more like a Linux command line emulator. It does feel pretty clunky but it is easier to port utilities to it and this is more complete than UnxUtils.
I personally don't like Cygwin. It really does seem to be wanting. Unless it has some specific tool you want that only works in Cygwin I'd find native ports.
http://www.activestate.com/Products/activeperl/index.mhtml is a nice Perl package for Windows.
http://www.locate32.net/ - I've always liked locate. Much faster than Grep for finding files by name.
Microsoft distributes a UNIX API compatibility layer for Windows NT-based OSes, as well as many common UNIX command line utilities that run on top of this compatibility layer. Unlike Cygwin, it doesn't sit on top of the Win32 subsystem, but instead interfaces with the NT native APIs directly. It supports features that may be difficult to implement on top of Win32, such as case-sensitive filenames and fork().
The Windows 2K/XP version is called Windows Services for UNIX (SFU). SFU is a free download from Microsoft, and also includes an NFS server and client.
The Windows Vista version is called Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications (SUA). SUA is included in the Enterprise and Ultimate editions of Windows Vista, but does not include any NFS support.
Neither SFU nor SUA include an X server. It is possible (but possibly ironic?) to use the free Cygwin X server with SFU/SUA applications.
The Wikipedia entries on SFU and Interix have more details and history.
Linux/BSD :)
Why vote down this question? It's obviously meant to be tongue in cheek is it worth the voter and the receiver losing rep over? Can't you people leave anything at zero and mark up the answers you want to see float rather than mark down the funny one liners?
In answer to the question I've used Cygwin in the past but always found it clunky and wanting. I don't think it's the tools problem but mine but I have book marked Eric's suggestion of unxutils for when my new windows machine arrives tomorrow.
I use Cygwin alot.
I use it for any mvn commands, find, grep, perl scp and all the other stuff i got used to use all the years I only worked on FreeBSD desktops and servers.
I have my old .vimrc, .zshrc, my .ssh/config and all the other nice stuff. I use rxvt.exe instead of cmd.exe which made all the difference for me! Resize, decent buffer, fonts and so on.
andLinux is a distribution of coLinux, which runs the entire Linux kernel inside Windows (with better performance than a VM). Then, with the help of Xming (an X windows server for Windows), you can have Linux windows mingle along side Windows windows.
With that, pretty much everything Linux-based will just work. You're not limited to just the tools that have been ported to Cygwin, you can apt-get anything you want.
andLinux also includes a few niceties, such as desktop shortcuts to launch Linux apps, a launcher that lives in your tray, and context menu items (right click a text file and you can open it in Kate)
The downsides of andLinux are:
Accessing the Linux filesystem is tricky. You have to set up Samba in both directions.
Connecting to a Linux program from a remote connection is also tricky (but possible)
As a LAMP developer considering moving to a .Net IIS platform, one of my concerns is the loss of productivity due to lack of shell... Has anyone else had this experience? Is there possibly a Linux shell equivalent for Windows?
Depending on what version of IIS you're considering, I would second lbrandy's recommendation to check out PowerShell. Microsoft is working on a PowerShell provider for IIS (specifically version 7). There is a decent post about this at http://blogs.iis.net/thomad/archive/2008/04/14/iis-7-0-powershell-provider-tech-preview-1.aspx. The upcoming version of PowerShell will also add remoting capabilities so that you can remotely manage machines. PowerShell is quite different from *NIX shells, though, so that is something to consider.
Hope this helps.
Are you asking about Linux shell as in an environment to work in? For that CygWin I think has been around the longest and is pretty robust: http://www.cygwin.com/
A while ago I found a windows port of all the popular linux commands I use (ls, grep, diff) and I simply unzip those to a file, add it to my PATH environment and then can run from there: http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/
Or are you talking about executing shell commands from within your code? If you're in the .NET sphere, there is the Process.Start() method that will give you a lot of options.
Hope this helps!
I assume you don't mean cygwin, right?
How about powershell, then?
If you're referring to simply accessing your IIS server from a remote location, remote desktop generally solves that problem. Assuming your server has a static IP address or a host name you can access from the internet, remote desktop is a simple and relatively secure solution.
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The best way I can think of would be to use Cygwin over an OpenSSH connection.
Here's a document that explains how to do just that:
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/cert/openssh_rdp_vnc.pdf
Remote shell doesn't solve the productivity issue. (It merely makes things possible.)
From what I've heard, everything that the future Microsoft GUI:s do will be possible to do with powershell since the GUI:s use the same API:s as those that are available from powershell.
Personally, I love cygwin but cygwin can not help you manage Microsoft applications.
You might be surprised, however, how powerfull the Windows Scripting Host is when coupled with Window Management Instrumentation. I think IIS is fully manageable with WMI or some COM objects that can be easilly used from a JScript WSH script.
You should make your choice of server platform based on the environment as a whole, and that includes the admin/management interfaces supplied.
I'm afraid that if you don't like the way Windows implements management of IIS, then that's too bad. Having said that, a bit of delving around in the WMI interfaces will generally yield a solution that you should find usable. I used to do quite a bit of WMI scripting (mostly via PowerShell) in order to have a reliable environment rebuild capability.
If you want a Linux shell on Windows, install the Windows Subsystem for Linux on Windows 10 :
The Windows Subsystem for Linux lets developers run a GNU/Linux environment -- including most command-line tools, utilities, and applications -- directly on Windows, unmodified, without the overhead of a traditional virtual machine or dualboot setup.