You could use expect, a bit like this. What you're trying to do is hard. In place of your
echo "exit"
you will need a loop that reads from stdin and writes to the telnet process. The next problem is terminated that loop and the remote shell at once. In the code below, I went with cntl-d. When the user types EOF (usually cntl-d), the loop terminates. Then the remote shell is sent an "exit". You can only send lines to the remote shell this way. No vi. No emacs. So I agree with No Ice, rch or ssh is the way to go. Still here is my code....
Dear friends..
Our project has a module that runs on handheld devices. Through the handheld we telnet to solaris where the application actually runs. I noticed that after starting a session through the handheld, if i go out of range or if i remove and replace the battery in the handheld, the... (1 Reply)
In either case using ksh or tcl, how can I check that I have a successfule telnet session and am being prompted with a tacacs login prompt ?
:confused:
DOIT () {
sleep 2
echo "<tacacs name >"
sleep 1
echo "<password>"
echo "en"
sleep 1
echo "<enable password>"
echo "term length 512"... (0 Replies)
Hello,
I have AIX 5.3 at home connected to netgear router. Port Forwarding has been enabled on the router. Problem is that if I want to telnet, I have to try 2 or 3 times before I can get a logon prompt. It times out for first or second time (Connection to session <IP_Address> failed: Connection... (1 Reply)
How can I disconnect an existing telnet session? The host is a serial port server with multiple ports. The users login using the host's name and a port, i.e. telnet host01 1235.
Thanks. (14 Replies)
hi guys,
currently i'm using putty and hyper terminal in my telnet session mostly on hp servers. problem is when im trying to use putty to connect with the mp console im unable to connect because im using a usb-to-serial cable & putty only configured to com1. reason for this is i want to save... (2 Replies)
Our network administrators implemented some sort of check to kill idle sessions and now burden is on us to run some sort of keep alive. Client based keep alive doesn't do a very good job. I have same issue with ssh. Does solution 2 provided above apply for ssh sessions also? (1 Reply)
I have inherited and SCO OpenServer Release 6 server. The clients connect using telnet to get to a proprietary database application for Service tickets. The issue I am currently having is that the connection just stops abruptly and you can see "telnet session terminated" on the terminal emulation... (22 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS
sleep
sleep(1) User Commands sleep(1)NAME
sleep - suspend execution for an interval
SYNOPSIS
sleep time
DESCRIPTION
The sleep utility will suspend execution for at least the integral number of seconds specified by the time operand.
OPERANDS
The following operands are supported:
time A non-negative decimal integer specifying the number of seconds for which to suspend execution.
EXAMPLES
Example 1: Suspending command execution for a time
To execute a command after a certain amount of time:
example% (sleep 105; command)&
Example 2: Executing a command every so often
example% while true
do
command
sleep 37
done
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables that affect the execution of sleep: LANG, LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, LC_MES-
SAGES, and NLSPATH.
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned:
0 The execution was successfully suspended for at least time seconds, or a SIGALRM signal was received (see NOTES).
>0 An error has occurred.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface Stability |Standard |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO wait(1), alarm(2), sleep(3C), wait(3UCB), attributes(5), environ(5), standards(5)NOTES
If the sleep utility receives a SIGALRM signal, one of the following actions will be taken:
o Terminate normally with a zero exit status.
o Effectively ignore the signal.
The sleep utility will take the standard action for all other signals.
SunOS 5.10 1 Feb 1995 sleep(1)