On Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 03:04:07PM -0800, Bennett Haselton wrote:
This makes me wonder two things:
- What is the difference, from the server's point of view, between the
connection opened by the script and the one opened by my ssh client; and
Spot the difference between ssh remotemachine and ssh remotemachine echo hello
The first is a login (shows up in "last"), the second is not. Your perl script does the moral equivalent of the second.