remote machine command execution

[kramerP]

i'm looking for the best way to run commands on a remote machine. what i want to do is run some command locally that will send another command to a remote computer and then once that command runs on the remote machine the output will be displayed on the local machine in standard output. i was trying to use netcat, but didn't seem to working quite right.

is there a better utility to use or maybe if netcat is good i just need some help with using it.

[DusteD]

If what you want is to use programs/files on the remote machine
and simply want to be able to run commands on it, you should be fine with ssh.

If you want to execute a process on your local machine, and then use the processing
power of the remote machine, you should look at openmosix.

[kramerP]

yeah i know i can use ssh to connect and then run commands i was just trying to see if there was a way i could send the commands without making an active connection (or a tcp connection that would remain active only until the commands were run and output returned). what i was trying on with netcat was something like this....

nc -l -p port_to_listen_on -c command_to_run -n ip_address port

but truthfully i'm not a netcat guru so this could be all wrong....

[spoon!]

Why can't you do this with SSH?

ssh user@host "command_to_run"

[kramerP]

did not even realize you could pass a command through ssh like that, but that works..... i guess i was just making it harder than it needed to be..... anyways, thanks for your help