[olug] Automating killing a *nix process from a windows box

[Cooper Vertz]

I totally agree, cygwin makes Windows tolerable.

You can use regular ssh with regular key files, to do whatever you want on
the Solaris box.

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Dave Rowe <dave at roweware.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 10:41 AM, T. J. Brumfield <enderandrew at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Here is the problem. We have error logs spitting out on Windows boxes
> > about GoldenGate processes locking up on a Solaris box. This is a
> > known bug that GoldenGate is hoping to fix in their next release. The
> > Solaris team has told me these logs aren't visible from the Solaris
> > boxes, despite the fact that is where GoldenGate is actually running.
> > I don't exactly believe that, but I have to go off what they tell me.
> >
> > If the logs appeared on the Solaris boxes themselves, I could write a
> > script that would watch the log, try to see the error message, pull
> > out the PID and then kill the process. But the logs are only in our
> > Windows environment.
> >
> > I've been trying to ask our Solaris team if the Solaris boxes have
> > postfix or any type of mail server running, where we could send an
> > email to those boxes with a PID to kill. But they don't seem to know
> > anything about the systems they are running.
> >
> > I do believe there are tools where I can pass commands into a putty
> > session, but what would be the best way to automate the process of
> > either watching a log or reading an email in Windows, pulling out a
> > PID, and then passing it to the script that will run putty, and thusly
> > the kill command?
> >
> > -- T. J. Brumfield
>
> Could you install Cygwin on the Windows box?  That'd give you
> 'bash'-style access to the logs, thus, you could watch the logs, pull
> the PID, then execute your command using SSH built-into Cygwin, right?
>
> -Dave
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