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<h2><a name="rexec">RExec</a></h2>
<h3>Description</h3>
Task to automate a remote rexec session. Just like the Telnet task,
it uses nested <tt><read></tt> to indicate strings to wait for, and
<tt><write></tt> tags to specify text to send to the remote process.
<p><b>Note:</b> This task depends on external libraries not included in the Ant distribution.
See <a href="../install.html#librarydependencies">Library Dependencies</a> for more information.</p>
<h3>Parameters</h3>
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<th>Attribute</th>
<th>Values</th>
<th>Required</th>
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<td>userid</td>
<td>the login id to use on the remote server.</td>
<td>Yes</td>
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<td>password</td>
<td>the login password to use on the remote server.</td>
<td>Yes</td>
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<td>server</td>
<td>the address of the remote rexec server.</td>
<td>Yes</td>
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<td>command</td>
<td>the command to execute on the remote server.</td>
<td>Yes</td>
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<td>port</td>
<td>the port number of the remote rexec server. Defaults to port 512 in BSD Unix systems.</td>
<td>No</td>
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<td>timeout</td>
<td>set a default timeout to wait for a response. Specified in seconds. Default is no timeout.</td>
<td>No</td>
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<h3><a name="nested">Nested Elements</a></h3>
The input to send to the server, and responses to wait for, are
described as nested elements.
<h4>read</h4>
<p>declare (as a text child of this element) a string to wait for.
The element supports the timeout attribute, which overrides any
timeout specified for the task as a whole. It also has a <tt>string</tt>
attribute, which is an alternative to specifying the string as
a text element.
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<i>It is not necessary to declare a closing <read> element like for the Telnet task. The connection is not broken until the command has completed and
the input stream (output of the command) is terminated.
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<h4>write</h4>
<p>describes the text to send to the server. The <tt>echo</tt> boolean
attribute controls whether the string is echoed to the local log;
this is "true" by default
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<h3>Example</h3>
A simple example of connecting to a server and running a command.
<blockquote><pre>
<rexec userid="bob" password="badpass" server="localhost" command="ls"/>
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The task can be used with other ports as well:
<blockquote><pre>
<rexec port="80" userid="bob" password="badpass" server="localhost" command="ls"/>
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