At 07:14 26/10/00 -0500, you wrote: >Forgive my ignorance, but wouldn't an "rsh" task be better suited >to what you are trying to do with the "telnet" task???
rsh is incredibly insecure and is not available on all OSs. Telnet also allows you to do other things that are not directly tied to a "login" shell - ie I could use it to pull down or restart my webserver that has a telnet interface etc. I can see it would be useful - thou definetly an optional thing. Cheers, Pete *------------------------------------------------------* | "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want | | to test a man's character, give him power." | | -Abraham Lincoln | *------------------------------------------------------*
