[hobbit] xymon ssh scan

[Vernon Everett]

You need something that's on all *nix systems.
/etc/passwd
/etc/hosts
or even /etc/motd

But why use cat?
ssh $HOST ls -la /etc/ will do just as well.
ssh $HOST ls -la /tmp is probably even less of a risk.

If you are testing ssh, any command will do.
ssh $HOST ls -d /tmp is probably best.
You know what the result will be, on all unix systems, and if you get "/tmp"
then ssh works.

Cheers
     Vernon




On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Josh Luthman
<josh at imaginenetworksllc.com>wrote:

> What is something that can be executed to make that universal?  Is
> /etc/*release on all *nix systems?  I know it is on rhel but that's
> it.
>
> On 6/11/10, Andreas Kunberger <andreas.kunberger at itv-denkendorf.de> wrote:
> > Why not use simply
> >  ssh %host% cat /etc/SuSE-release
> >
> > mfg
> >
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