Re: Telnet

2002-05-21 Thread Scott
On Tue, 2002-04-30 at 17:11, Scott wrote: Does anyone know how to make a script to telnet to an IP, authenticate (login / pass) and then reconnect every 8 hours or whenever the connection is lost. Its rather important because its the only thing stopping me from fully using OSX. I had

Re: Telnet

2002-05-01 Thread hinchlif
On Tuesday, April 30, 2002, at 05:11 PM, Scott wrote: Does anyone know how to make a script to telnet to an IP, authenticate (login / pass) and then reconnect every 8 hours or whenever the connection is lost. I don't know about the reconnection or authentication stuff, but here's

Re: Telnet

2002-05-01 Thread Onno Benschop
On Tue, 2002-04-30 at 17:11, Scott wrote: Does anyone know how to make a script to telnet to an IP, authenticate (login / pass) and then reconnect every 8 hours or whenever the connection is lost. Its rather important because its the only thing stopping me from fully using OSX. I had

Re: Telnet

2002-05-01 Thread Andrew Nielsen
Just a comment about all this telnetting going on - telnet transmits information unencrypted. That includes your user name and password. ssh is a much more secure alternative. Food for thought. -- Andrew Nielsen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Starfish Technologies Pty Ltd http://www.starfish.net.au

Re: Telnet

2002-05-01 Thread Shay Telfer
Just a comment about all this telnetting going on - telnet transmits information unencrypted. That includes your user name and password. ssh is a much more secure alternative. Food for thought. Of course, so does POP, but that doesn't seem to worry most of the world Have fun, Shay (Bitter

Re: Telnet

2002-05-01 Thread Geoff Watts
Of course, so does POP, but that doesn't seem to worry most of the world Mmm, and I'd be inclined to think that POP was less secure than telnet, because the password will (usually) live inside one packet, prepended with the keyword 'PASS', and is incredibly to sniff off the wire. Or off un WEP'd

Re: Telnet

2002-05-01 Thread Peter N Lewis
At 9:32 +0800 1/5/02, Geoff Watts wrote: Of course, so does POP, but that doesn't seem to worry most of the world Mmm, and I'd be inclined to think that POP was less secure than telnet, because the password will (usually) live inside one packet, prepended with the keyword 'PASS

Telnet

2002-04-30 Thread Scott
Does anyone know how to make a script to telnet to an IP, authenticate (login / pass) and then reconnect every 8 hours or whenever the connection is lost. Its rather important because its the only thing stopping me from fully using OSX. I had an applescript that did this with ³MacTelnet² in OS9

Re: Telnet Automation in OSX

2002-02-09 Thread hinchlif
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

Telnet Automation in OSX

2002-02-08 Thread Scott
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

Re: Telnet Automation in OSX

2002-02-08 Thread Onno Benschop
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