[wplug] perl help

[Ryan W. Frenz]

You're right, I'm sorry.  The problem was that I was calling it from C, 
and wasn't fork()-ing right...guess I need to re-read that freshman C 
textbook.  Anyway, it's working now, thanks.

John Harrold wrote:

>Sometime in February Ryan W. Frenz assaulted the keyboard and produced:
>
>| yeah, same problem -- ssh just isn't waiting for my password.  I get a 
>| prompt for password then 'permission denied' three times and it exits.
>| 
>| >my $prog    = $ARGV[0];
>| >my $machine = $ARGV[1];
>| >my $label   = $ARGV[2];
>| >my $cmd     = "ssh user\@$machine  $prog";
>| ># or
>| >   $cmd     = "ssh $machine  $prog";
>| >
>| >   system($cmd);
>| >
>| >   exit 0;
>
>that's strange the stuff above works for me. granted i'm just running 'ls'.
>it ssh's fine, asks for a password, and executes the ls command. silly
>question, but are you sure you have the correct password :). 
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