Re: Telnet Automation in OSX
On Friday, February 8, 2002, at 02:26 PM, Scott wrote: Is terminal scriptable? Looking at Terminal's AppleScript dictionary it's pretty meagre for what you want to do. However, it does have doscript which allows you to run a UNIX shell script from within Terminal. -- Peter Hinchliffe Apwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482 Fax (618) 9332 0913 Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Telnet Automation in OSX
Hi all, Wondering if anyone knows how to automate telnet in OSX? I made this apple script for 9. And then used chronotask to Reload it every 8 hours. I need something that will log me in every 8 hours. And if the previous session is active to logout first. This is my old script property MyUserName : -- substitute your log-in name here property MyHost : -- substitute your connection host here property MyPass : *** -- substitute your password here on run tell application MacTelnet connect to MyHost name my automatically-logged-in connection delay 3 -- give the connection a chance to open copy connection 1 to my_connection -- send AYT to my_connection -- sends ³are you there?² -- wait for [Yes] send MyUserName to my_connection with newline -- substitute your user name here delay 2 -- give the connection a chance to display pass prompt send MyPass to my_connection with newline delay 5 -- give the connection a chance to think end tell end run Is terminal scriptable? Regards, Scott Palmer [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: Telnet Automation in OSX
At 14:26 8/02/02 +0800, Scott wrote: Wondering if anyone knows how to automate telnet in OSX? [Applescript solution deleted] You're now running a computer with a real operating system, so you can use real tools - things like shell scripts :-) You could do something *like* this in a shell script; it will loop forever and wait until the telnet terminates, then starts it again: while [true] ; do telnet wait done What I'm really wondering is what you're attempting with a constantly open telnet session. Unless both machines are behind the same firewall and you've got control over both and the rest of the network, I wouldn't be using telnet in this day and age. -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |? ..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
