How do i execute a system() command from a remote machine?

[qednick]

Hi again all, perhaps we should rename this forum "qednick's unix problems"...

anyways, i have another question: say i have a program sitting on my unix web server and I want to execute it from another computer remotely.

For example, say i have a file on the server called "somefile.txt" and I want to chmod 0700 this file from my home computer using a program (i don't mean telnet) I have written. If my program was not remote, within my program I could just use:

system("chmod 0700 somefile.txt"

however, i want to do the same thing from the remote computer just like telnet or ftp programs do. How do I do this?

The answer is probably very simple but I can't see the wood for the trees at the moment.

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[mingis]

Some amateur hint is here
thread116-400709 is for Windows client, but, I think, it can be adopted for Unix too.

 

[qednick]

Thanks mingis. I was actually thinking along those lines but thought there may be a simpler and more 'direct' approach. My original idea was to implement a very small cgi script on the unix server which, when called, would execute the command on behalf of the windows app. I could also implement some basic security checking before the script executes.

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