Run shell script on Linux box from a shortcut/app in Android?
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Published on 2012-10-16T17:35:32Z
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I have an Ubuntu box which runs XBMC, which crashes occasionally. Since I have no keyboard connected,I have to SSH in, kill xinit, then restart it. I was wondering if there's an elegant way of doing this from my Android tablet, so I don't have to go to my desktop PC.
I've used ConnectBot and can log in, but typing is laborious, even using the edit keys to scroll back up through the buffer. It seems as though it should be possible to script this so that I can execute a shortcut, or at least select a predefined script to be executed.
This would seem to have plenty of applications, and there could be a site of scripts - restart webserver, reboot, email logs etc
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