May 2017
Beginner
552 pages
28h 47m
English
Content preview from Linux Shell Scripting Cookbook - Third Edition
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The script uses SSH to log in to remote systems, collect disk usage statistics, and write them to a log file in the central machine. This script can be scheduled to run at a particular time.
The script requires a common user account on the remote machines so the disklog script can log in to collect data. We should configure auto-login with SSH for the common user (the Password-less auto-login with SSH recipe of Chapter 8, The Old-Boy Network, explains auto-login).