urgrue wrote: > I'm trying to make a simple script that will do with telnet what one can > do with ssh when you do "ssh hostname command". iow: > telnet somehost command > > then it should, using expect (presumably), telnet into somehost, prompt > me interactively for the username/password, and after successfully > logging in run the command specified on somehost. The Wikipedia page for Expect uses this task as its first example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expect -- Glynn Clements <glynn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html