On Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 03:04:07PM -0800, Bennett Haselton wrote: > This makes me wonder two things: > 1) What is the difference, from the server's point of view, between the > connection opened by the script and the one opened by my ssh client; and Spot the difference between ssh remotemachine and ssh remotemachine echo hello The first is a login (shows up in "last"), the second is not. Your perl script does the moral equivalent of the second. -- rgds Stephen _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos