Hi there, What I am trying to do is running a shell script within a telnet task in order to shut down a Tomcat server.
How would I execute a script properly? The following gives me no failure, but Tomcat is not shutting down... <target name="tomcatshutdown" depends="properties" > <telnet userid="xxx" password="xxx" server="some IP adress" timeout="120"> <read string="Have a lot of fun..."/> <write>./opt/tomcat/bin/shutdown.sh</write> <read/> </telnet> </target> Also: I wanted to read out one line "Stop tomcat" before quitting telnet task, so that I knew it was successfull, but that was not working either. (<read string="Stop tomcat"/>) Then it gives me this but when I do it manually without ant this line comes (with others, like using classpath etc.): tomcatshutdown: [telnet] Welcome to SuSE Linux 7.3 (i386) - Kernel 2.4.10-4GB (5). [telnet] [telnet] server login: [telnet] xxx [telnet] Password: [telnet] [telnet] Last login: Fri Aug 2 12:09:10 from [telnet] Have a lot of fun... [telnet] ./opt/tomcat/bin/shutdown.sh BUILD FAILED file:/home/paula/work/projekte/mde/gui/build.xml:28: Response timed-out waiting for "Stop tomcat" at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.net.TelnetTask$AntTelnetClient.waitForString(TelnetTask.java:344) at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.net.TelnetTask$TelnetRead.execute(TelnetTask.java:286) at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.net.TelnetTask.execute(TelnetTask.java:156) at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:317) at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.execute(Target.java:309) at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.performTasks(Target.java:334) at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTarget(Project.java:1306) at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTargets(Project.java:1250) at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.runBuild(Main.java:610) at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.start(Main.java:196) at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.main(Main.java:235) I appreciate any help! By paula -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>