There was a discussion in 2019 about a similar thing. The top/subject was Challenge: who can background this shell command?
Matthias > Am 30.04.2026 um 22:59 schrieb Bob Sneidar via use-livecode > <[email protected]>: > > I seem to remember something about this floating by a few years ago, but I > can enter this command in terminal: > > telnet mysql.iotecdigital.com 8086 > > I will get a response of some sort if the server is listening on that port, > or else after it times out it will tell me. > > If I use that command in a shell call from a script however I get the error: > > /bin/sh: line 1: telnet: command not found > > I believe there was some talk about the default shell changing, but when I > check the terminal shell it is /bin/sh and so is the shellCommand property. > Why is shell not working?? > > Also as an aside, can I change the timeout? If I don’t get a response on 5 > seconds, the server is not listening or I cannot get to it. > > Bob S > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
