What Linux distro for a P3 computer 3534

That shouldn't be an issue as long as the same apps-utilities are on both boxes.

There's nothing to running commands on a remote computer that you have control of.

Use any number of utilities to send a file over (netcat is the simplest) with the commands in it (a script), and have a scripted 'semi-daemon' watching for files to show up in the directory it is copied to and run them. Machine 2

(Run nc in dir you want to receive the files in. It will just wait and wait...)

Machine 1

#!-bin-sh

# semi-daemon # check $dir every 60 seconds, and if there # are any files in it, make them executable and # run them then deleted them

dir=-where-scripts-will-be-copied-to

while true ; do

if find $dir -type f grep "a-zA-Z0-9" ; then

chmod +rx ${dir}-*

run-parts $dir

rm $dir-*

fi

sleep 60

done

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screen is VERY useful for monitoring and controlling a remote computer. If you were running it on both boxes you wouldn't even need the above. You are just there.

AC