Bantu (an African 'talking drum') is an HTTP server that will simply execute any commands on the host machine specified by an authenticated client.

cURL usage example: (kill all python processes running on a server)

**NOTE: this example assumes a bantu server running at http://bantu.someurl.com

curl --user foo:bar \
--data run="ps -ef | grep python | grep -v grep | awk '{print \$2}' | xargs kill -9" \
http://bantu.someurl.com/execute

Node usage example: (kill all node processes running on a server)

**NOTE: this example boots up a Bantu server and makes a client request in the same process. Obviously you would never do this in a production situation.
**NOTE: see the test/ dir for a working example

// defined user and pass for basic auth
var auth_user = 'foo'; 
var auth_pwd = 'bar';

// create a bantu client
var client = bantu.createClient();

// create a bantu server, the server object will be passed in the callback
var server = bantu.createServer(auth_user, auth_pwd, 3000, function(server){

  // define request options
  var opts = {
    host : 'localhost',
    port : '3000',
    run : "ps -ef | grep node | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill -9 ", //kill all node procs
    username : auth_user,
    password : auth_pwd 
  };
  
  console.log("Client: making request with opts:", opts);
  client.exec(opts, function(response){
    console.log("Client: received response:", response);
    process.exit();
  });

});