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Sorry to jump in, and a bit off topic.
However I always thought that in order to use the wait $! syntax below:

wait $!

You would have to put the command into the background using the ampersand...

I feel stupid -- I had set all of the tmp files to a different directory which was failing and my test never got to the more. Grrrrrr. Fixed my bug and problem reproduced, changed more to
cp...

This loop:
ps -ef | awk '/[m]yAgent/{print $8}' | while read lines ;
is using stdin so anything called from within it (like telnetTest()) cannot use any process that opens (and closes) stdin.

Or, you could just use awk '/[m]yAgent/{print $8}'

Because you're in the middle of a pipe chain, standard input is already being used. Your read just grabs the next line printed by awk!

You should tell it explicitly that you want to read from the...

ps -ef | awk '/myAgent/{print $8}' | while read line ;
....
if [ "$response" = Y ] -o [ "$response" = y ] ; then

As far as I know, for established connections, this should happen only for connections that are initiated from kernel space (like NFS ...).

You could try rpcinfo -p to see it its output helps.

OK, I think I figured this out.

If you don't have HISTTIMEFORMAT set, but do have a history file, and then set HISTTIMEFORMAT, your history will all show the same time.

If you then set...