Telnet chat in rc-script

[zorloc]

I am trying to create rc-script for OpenAntiVirus's ScannerDaemon. Starting is not a problem but I don't know how to script the shutdown. Shutdown is done by:

telnet localhost 8127
(once connected)
COMMAND SHUTDOWN

How do I do this in an rc-script?

jbw

[some_bob]

I don't believe you will be able to do it in a shell script as the telnet command does not accept an "execute" parameter like ssh does from the command line.

You might be able to do it in Perl, but I wouldn't know how off the top of my head.

Add on-

You could probably use netcat though. You create a file with the command you want to execute:

get.txt:
COMMAND SHUTDOWN

nc -v <host> <port> < get.txt


you could add that to your rc script and that should work.

[zorloc]

Thanks. I was able to do it by embeding a php script -- but that's not very portable. I'll check out netcat.

jbw[/quote]