I concur with Matt, reinventing the wheel is rarely the best course of action. Using a know system such as Salt brings not only a working system (instead of wrinting and debugging your own), but the community resources as well. Good luck, David On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 1:46 PM, Matthew Zito <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > If you're really trying to build something secure for remote execution of > commands that's maintainable, unless you're already extremely familiar with > expect and tcl, you should just go and learn Salt. > > Trust me, having built automation systems over ssh and expect and things > like that, it's a real bear to maintain. > > Matt > > > > On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 1:40 PM, <Nathan.Dhital@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> David- >> Thank you for the suggestion - I just looked at Puppet, Chef, CFengine or >> Salt - however, they all are new to me. I should probably stick with >> Expect, tcl/tk since I already spent some time in learning these. >> >> If there is any suggestion about Expect, Tcl/Tk from any list members, >> please advise/teach me. Thank you >> >> >> Sincerely, >> >> >> -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l