Question

Need a way to have a perl script running on one machine run a perl script running on another.

The remote machine config is:

• CentOS-5.5,
• it’s on the same network is the requesting machine,
• has a DNS,
• ports-open(SSH,HTTP)

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Answer 1

Is this what you want?

system("ssh user@remotemachine perl <remote script's full path>");

will run the script on remote machine.

you may want to ssh without password, check: http://linuxproblem.org/art_9.html