From: Paul Lutus <nospam@...>
Date: 2006-09-20T04:30:12+09:00
Subject: Re: a server  that will serve http page created from data collected by "rsh"

rajibsukanta@yahoo.co.in wrote:

/ ...

> I hope i could clearly state what I am trying to acheive.

So, you want each of 20 user machines to individually collect stats from 80
computers and generate a Web page summarizing the results. Yes?

Why don't you have one machine collect the stats every five minutes and
serve the Web page to the others in some secure way? This would prevent a
lot of redundant net traffic.

If you used SSH, you could deliver the Web page without an HTTP server to
any calling PC with the appropriate credentials. No Web server, one host
machine, very secure. Simple.

If the Web page turned out to be local, you could still do without the Web
server. Since the page is local to the client machine, you could simply
provide a file URL instead of a HTTP URL. Much simpler. If the page is
accessed via SSH, same thing -- no Web server required.

And, as someone else has pointed out, rsh is a bad idea.

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Paul Lutus
http://www.arachnoid.com