At 01:59 PM 9/23/2003 -0800, you wrote:
Paul,
Any chance these scripts could be run from Cygwin, Uwin, MKS Toolkit, or anything that will let you use a korn shell?
That would simplify things tremendously.
One of the problems with Windohs is that you cannot execute a script or program so that it can return a value to a local environment variable.
That ability would make this task simple from command.com.
Another possibility is to put your passwords in the registry, restrict that
portion of the registry, ( or the whole thing ), and use a Perl script to retrieve
the passwords and kick off the other jobs.
What I do in linux is use a password server ( as seen in "Perl for Oracle DBA's")
and retrieve the password across the network, encrypted of course.
This works on windows as well, though you're there restricted to doing this strictly from within the Perl script.
Jared
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