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On 10/13/07, Gary Johnson <garyjohn AT spk DOT agilent DOT com> wrote:
> On 2007-10-13, ppmoore wrote:
> > Hello again,
> >
> > Just to say that I found a partial solution, by copying the ssh login keys
> > generated on Cygwin on the Windows box to the .ssh directory on the remote
> > Linux box, and then executing from a local Cygwin xterm:
> >   DISPLAY=localhost:0.0 ssh -Y -C -q user AT remote-machine "command"
> >
> > But is there a way to do it by running a Cygwin script on the Windows box?
>
> IIUUC, yes, just install the ssh server on your Cygwin/Windows box.
> The instructions are here:
>
>    /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/openssh.README
>
> Regards,
> Gary
>

There's not need for an SSH server on the Windows box.  You only need
the client, as the login is going from Windows to Linux.

To execute a script instead of xterm, just run the script instead! :)
In your command above, forget the "DISPLAY" stuff and put whatever the
name of the command you want to run inside "command".  In most cases,
a simple "ssh user AT hostname command" would suffice.  Once you have the
ssh keys set up, you don't even need a password.

Once that is done and working, if you want to run it automatically,
look into "cron".

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