Hi, I would like to see if a process is running on a remote unix box (Solaris/Linux/HPUX etc),
from a linux server. I am using the basic 'ps -ef | grep -v grep | grep -i "$process" ' to get the result back.
I have two scenario's.
1. A stand-alone script using net-ssh-perl to execute the above. example:
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#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use Net::SSH::Perl;

my $ssh = Net::SSH::Perl->new('10.2.2.10',debug => 1, protocol => '2,1');
$ssh->login('uername','password');
my ($stdout, $stderr, $exit) = $ssh->cmd('ps -ef | grep -v grep | grep pmon');

print $stdout . "\n";
print $stderr . "\n";
print $exit . "\n";
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If I execute this it works fine on both Linux and Solaris.
I get the following output (Solaris) with the ps command output at the end:

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thetamon: Reading configuration data /home/dbahist/.ssh/config
thetamon: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh_config
thetamon: Connecting to 150.50.0.165, port 22.
thetamon: Remote version string: SSH-2.0-Sun_SSH_1.1

thetamon: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version Sun_SSH_1.1
thetamon: Net::SSH::Perl Version 1.30, protocol version 2.0.
thetamon: No compat match: Sun_SSH_1.1.
thetamon: Connection established.
thetamon: Sent key-exchange init (KEXINIT), wait response.
thetamon: Algorithms, c->s: 3des-cbc hmac-sha1 none
thetamon: Algorithms, s->c: 3des-cbc hmac-sha1 none
thetamon: Entering Diffie-Hellman Group 1 key exchange.
thetamon: Sent DH public key, waiting for reply.
thetamon: Received host key, type 'ssh-dss'.
thetamon: Host '150.50.0.165' is known and matches the host key.
thetamon: Computing shared secret key.
thetamon: Verifying server signature.
thetamon: Waiting for NEWKEYS message.
thetamon: Enabling incoming encryption/MAC/compression.
thetamon: Send NEWKEYS, enable outgoing encryption/MAC/compression.
thetamon: Sending request for user-authentication service.
thetamon: Service accepted: ssh-userauth.
thetamon: Trying empty user-authentication request.
thetamon: Authentication methods that can continue: publickey,password,keyboard-interactive.
thetamon: Next method to try is publickey.
thetamon: Next method to try is password.
thetamon: Trying password authentication.
thetamon: Login completed, opening dummy shell channel.
thetamon: channel 0: new [client-session]
thetamon: Requesting channel_open for channel 0.
thetamon: channel 0: open confirm rwindow 0 rmax 32768
thetamon: Got channel open confirmation, requesting shell.
thetamon: Requesting service shell on channel 0.
thetamon: channel 1: new [client-session]
thetamon: Requesting channel_open for channel 1.
thetamon: Entering interactive session.
thetamon: Sending command: ps -ef | grep -v grep | grep pmon
thetamon: Requesting service exec on channel 1.
thetamon: channel 1: open confirm rwindow 0 rmax 32768
thetamon: input_channel_request: rtype exit-status reply 0
thetamon: channel 1: rcvd eof
thetamon: channel 1: output open -> drain
thetamon: channel 1: rcvd close
thetamon: channel 1: input open -> closed
thetamon: channel 1: close_read
thetamon: channel 1: obuf empty
thetamon: channel 1: output drain -> closed
thetamon: channel 1: close_write
thetamon: channel 1: send close
thetamon: channel 1: full closed
oracle 29003 1 0 Jan 26 ? 0:02 ora_pmon_tcat
oracle 731 1 0 Jan 25 ? 0:01 ora_pmon_genp
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But now I would like to move this script to run within Apache using the follwowing:
"Apache/2.0.59 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.0.59 OpenSSL/0.9.7a mod_perl/2.0.3 Perl/v5.8.5"

I created a basic form to select the server name, and then post it with a "process" to check. Example:
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#!/usr/bin/perl
use CGI qw/:standard/;
use Net::SSH::Perl;

sub print_header()
{
print header(-expires=>'+1s');
print start_html(-title=>'Test');
}

sub print_end()
{
print end_html;
}

my $cmd;
&print_header;

print start_form, 'Select Server ';
print scrolling_list(-name=>'server',
-size=>1,
-default=>undef,
-values=>['10.2.2.11','150.50.0.165']);
print "<p>";
print "<em> What process are you looking for ? </em>";
print textfield('grepvalue');
print submit('Check');
print end_form;

if (param('server'))
{
if (param('grepvalue'))
{ $cmd = 'ps -ef | grep -v grep | grep -i "' . param('grepvalue') . '"'; }
else
{ $cmd = "ps -ef"; }

$ip_address = param('server');
print "<p>";

my $ssh = Net::SSH::Perl->new($ip_address, debug => 1) ;
$ssh->login('username','password');
my ($stdout, $stderr, $exit) = $ssh->cmd($cmd);
$stdout =~ s/\n/\n<br>/g, $stdout;
print "<font face=Courier>";
print "exit status " . $exit . " " . $stderr . "<br><br>";
print $stdout;
print "<p>";

}
&print_end;

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If I execute the above on the linux box. All works.
If I do it connecting to Solaris, I get the output below.
It seems as if it is waiting for the STDOUT to fill.
Any Ideas? I have tried multiple options, but no luck.
Initially the standalone script was really slow, but since I updated the
Math-BigInt-GMP to the latest version it is now quit quick. But using the web site to check if the process is running it just hangs.

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thetamon: Reading configuration data /home/apache/.ssh/config
thetamon: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh_config
thetamon: Connecting to 150.50.0.165, port 22.
thetamon: Remote version string: SSH-2.0-Sun_SSH_1.1

thetamon: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version Sun_SSH_1.1
thetamon: Net::SSH::Perl Version 1.30, protocol version 2.0.
thetamon: No compat match: Sun_SSH_1.1.
thetamon: Connection established.
thetamon: Sent key-exchange init (KEXINIT), wait response.
thetamon: Algorithms, c->s: 3des-cbc hmac-sha1 none
thetamon: Algorithms, s->c: 3des-cbc hmac-sha1 none
thetamon: Entering Diffie-Hellman Group 1 key exchange.
thetamon: Sent DH public key, waiting for reply.
thetamon: Received host key, type 'ssh-dss'.
thetamon: Host '150.50.0.165' is known and matches the host key.
thetamon: Computing shared secret key.
thetamon: Verifying server signature.
thetamon: Waiting for NEWKEYS message.
thetamon: Enabling incoming encryption/MAC/compression.
thetamon: Send NEWKEYS, enable outgoing encryption/MAC/compression.
thetamon: Sending request for user-authentication service.
thetamon: Service accepted: ssh-userauth.
thetamon: Trying empty user-authentication request.
thetamon: Authentication methods that can continue: publickey,password,keyboard-interactive.
thetamon: Next method to try is publickey.
thetamon: Next method to try is password.
thetamon: Trying password authentication.
thetamon: Login completed, opening dummy shell channel.
thetamon: channel 0: new [client-session]
thetamon: Requesting channel_open for channel 0.
thetamon: channel 0: open confirm rwindow 0 rmax 32768
thetamon: Got channel open confirmation, requesting shell.
thetamon: Requesting service shell on channel 0.
thetamon: channel 1: new [client-session]
thetamon: Requesting channel_open for channel 1.
thetamon: Entering interactive session.
thetamon: Sending command: ps -ef | grep -v grep | grep -i "pmon"
thetamon: Requesting service exec on channel 1.
thetamon: channel 1: open confirm rwindow 0 rmax 32768
thetamon: channel 1: rcvd eof
thetamon: channel 1: output open -> drain
thetamon: input_channel_request: rtype exit-status reply 0
thetamon: channel 1: rcvd close
thetamon: channel 1: input open -> closed
thetamon: channel 1: close_read

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