Yup, nc works fine, thanks! Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Mon, 14.04.08 16:21, Jim Duda (jim at duda.tzo.com) wrote: > >> I'm trying to set a sink-mute using module-cli-protocol-tcp. >> >> I'm getting "Failed to parse mute switch". See below. >> >> Note that if I do the same thing using module-cli, from the shell used to launch pulseaudio, this command works fine. >> >> Also, how do I exit the tcp login? exit always terminates the deamon. The documentation suggests using ^D (control D). >> I tried using ^D. In response to ^D, I get "unkown command". > > Your version of telnet (you are using that as client, right?) seems to > use CRLF as line break. PA expects NL and will thus assume that CR is > part of the mute switch value and then fails to parse that. > > Your version of telnet seems to pass ^D raw to the other side, > expecting that the other side does all the fancy TTY interpretation of > these special charachters. PA does not understand that command. Use ^] > and "quit" to exit a telnet connection. > > Use "netcat" to connect the PA server. It doesn't do any fancy > TTY-foo, leaves ^D handled by your local TTY, doesn't translate NL to > CRLF and is thus the much better choice than telnet. > > Long story short: telnet is not a generic TCP client. Never been, > never will be. Don't misuse it as such. > > Lennart >
