Hm... I seem to remember being able to do something along the lines of

# echo "remember, root is watching you" > /dev/ptye4
[download]

(and, incidentally, cat /dev/ptye4), but I think you have to be root either way, and I don't remember it actually executing anything. What you're trying to do is have an external program (tcsh, or whatever your shell is) interpret some commands, and I don't think many shells will like that.

What is it you're trying to do? Perhaps there's some other way you can accomplish whatever it is.

You remember right, but this only echo's text to the users terminal rather than run any commands within the terminal for the user.

Essentially I am trying to write a GUI cluster admin tool, whereby text typed into a console is multiplied out to 2 or more terminal windows (and where each window can be typed in individually) to minimise cluster admin headaches.

I have the basic perl outline in my head and the GUI side of it written - i just do not currently know how to control a terminal window in this way.

We have an off-the-shelf tool already but it doesnt support ssh, and it lacks a few "niceties", hence this mini-project.

So you want to run the same command simultaneously on several cluster nodes. Again, I think it would be too much of a headache to open n terminals and tell them all to pass stuff to shells. You would probably be better off using something like Net::SSH and just maintaining one session per node. Maintain an array of references to connections or something like that, and everytime you type a command into your GUI you iterate across the array and pass the command to each connection.


LAI
:eof