Hi everyone,

I want to non-interactively telnet onto a Unix server from a windows machine, do something there, and then log-out...all non-interactively. Lets say something like Expect from one Unix server to another. I tried Java networking classes...didint help and then Perl. Not much help either.

Does anyone have any clue?


sands

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Sandz

Sands,

When you telnet onto a server, you are basically establishing a socket connection on port 23.

Try using the Socket class:

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/...et/Socket.html

Hope this helps.

Cheers

Well the problem is doing this would help me to create a telnet session , but that wouldnt be automatic...in other words i would still have to enter the login and password via the keyboard. I want this to happen non-interactively ; just as it happens when we employ expect scripts in Unix.

Sandz

Sorry, I know this is OT in a java section, but it's easy to do this in perl

#/usr/bin/perl

use Net::Telnet; # you will need this installed, available from cpan.org, or your distro

$telnet = new Net::Telnet ( Timeout=>10,
                            Errmode=>'die'
                            Prompt => '/\$ $/i');
$telnet->open('remote.site.com');
$telnet->login('user', 'passwd');
print $telnet->cmd('something_or_other');

HTH,

Charlie


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oops, you may want to read:
http://search.cpan.org/dist/Net-Teln.../Net/Telnet.pm

as well

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