UNIX Shell Agents

Check out the following peace of code. It *is* what I think would qualify for a UNIX Shell Agent. You can use UNIX Shell Agents to perform some kinda processing on a number of hosts on your network -- all in pure and simple UNIX shell code. I'll post more shell agent samples in the future. Comments are welcome!

---------- agent.sh --------------

#! /bin/sh



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# UNIX Shell Agents

# by Siddharth Uppal 

# agent.sh: Simple Shell Agent sample

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AgentSource="/u/uppals/PlayGround/agent.sh"



NextHost="some.host.com"



echo "I'm currently running at `hostname`"

if [ "`hostname`" != "$NextHost" ]

then

	echo "Moving to $NextHost"

	rsh $NextHost  $AgentSource

else

	# We're on NextHost, do something!

	echo "Displaying the users logged into $NextHost"

	who

fi