• Home
  • Line#
  • Scopes#
  • Navigate#
  • Raw
  • Download
1#!/bin/sh
2#
3# Program:  RemoteRunSafely.sh
4#
5# Synopsis: This script simply runs another program remotely using ssh.
6#           It always returns the another program exit code or exit with
7#           code 255 which indicates that the program could not be executed.
8#
9# Syntax:
10#
11#   RemoteRunSafely.sh <hostname> [-l <login_name>] [-p <port>]
12#                <program> <args...>
13#
14#   where:
15#     <hostname>    is the remote host to execute the program,
16#     <login_name>  is the username on the remote host,
17#     <port>        is the port used by the remote client,
18#     <program>     is the path to the program to run,
19#     <args...>     are the arguments to pass to the program.
20#
21
22printUsageAndExit()
23{
24  echo "Usage:"
25  echo "./RemoteRunSafely.sh <hostname> [-l <login_name>] [-p <port>] " \
26       "<program> <args...>"
27  exit 255
28}
29
30moreArgsExpected()
31{
32  # $1 - remaining number of arguments
33  # $2 - number of arguments to shift
34  if [ $1 -lt $2 ]
35  then
36    echo "Error: Wrong number of argumants."
37    printUsageAndExit
38  fi
39}
40
41# Save a copy of the original arguments in a string before we
42# clobber them with the shift command.
43ORIG_ARGS="$*"
44#DEBUG: echo 'GOT: '$ORIG_ARGS
45
46moreArgsExpected $# 1
47RHOST=$1
48shift 1
49
50RUSER=`id -un`
51RCLIENT=ssh
52RPORT=
53WORKING_DIR=
54
55moreArgsExpected $# 1
56if [ $1 = "-l" ]; then
57  moreArgsExpected $# 2
58  RUSER=$2
59  shift 2
60fi
61moreArgsExpected $# 1
62if [ $1 = "-p" ]; then
63  moreArgsExpected $# 2
64  RPORT="-p $2"
65  shift 2
66fi
67
68moreArgsExpected $# 1
69PROGRAM=$(basename $1)
70WORKING_DIR=$(dirname $1)
71shift 1
72
73#DEBUG: echo 'DIR='${0%%`basename $0`}
74#DEBUG: echo 'RHOST='$RHOST
75#DEBUG: echo 'RUSER='$RUSER
76#DEBUG: echo 'PROGRAM='$PROGRAM
77#DEBUG: echo 'WORKING_DIR='$WORKING_DIR
78#DEBUG: echo 'ARGS='$*
79
80# Sanity check
81if [ "$RHOST" = "" -o "$PROGRAM" = "" ]; then
82  printUsageAndExit
83fi
84
85# Local program file must exist and be execuatble
86local_program=$WORKING_DIR"/"$PROGRAM
87if [ ! -x "$local_program" ]; then
88  echo "File "$local_program" does not exist or is not an executable.."
89  exit 255
90fi
91
92connection=$RUSER'@'$RHOST
93remote="./"$PROGRAM
94(
95  cat $local_program |        \
96  $RCLIENT $connection $RPORT \
97   'rm -f '$remote' ; '       \
98   'cat > '$remote' ; chmod +x '$remote' ; '$remote' '$*' ; ' \
99   'err=$? ; rm -f '$remote' ; exit $err'
100)
101err=$?
102
103#DEBUG: echo script exit $err
104exit $err
105
106