[ale] How to get Unix to KickOff an NT Process

[tfreeman at intel.digichem.net]

Isn't this the type of headache that expect was developed to handle?

On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Armsby John-G16665 wrote:

> One of the IT guys here came with a question.... He has a cron job on a unix box which needs to start a process on an NT box.  Apparently there is either no trust in the NT cron or the NT guys refuse to schedule a job...
> 
> Assuming there is no telnet capability on the NT box, the only idea I could come up with is that, IF there were a web server on the NT box..
> 
> The unix box via a LWP perl script could invoke a CGI script on the NT Box.  That CGI script would start the necessary NT process.
> 
> Anyone got a more elegant solution??
> 
> John
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