[BusyBox] scriptable telnet

[bugouzhi Wang]

Hi,
 I am actually using busybox on a Sharp Zaurus PDA, and i had trouble
getting expect installed on it.  I am trying to telnet to a daemon running
on the PDA to continuously get some information from it, the daemon 
only support the telnet protocol. It doesn't require any login stufff, i just 
need to telnet to it, and run a few command and save its output to a file.
Is there any other ways to do it beside expect? I guess now i will wait
for Rob's netcat and see what happens.  

Thanks everyone for their help

Jian

On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 05:26:31 -0500, Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:
> On Thursday 18 November 2004 02:31 am, bugouzhi Wang wrote:
> 
> 
> > Hi
> > I saw this was a past issue in the archive, sorry to bring it up
> > again. but I couldn't figure it out how to automate telnet.  I tried
> > something like piping the logins and command through a script to
> > telnet, but it seems telnet close stdin and not accepting anything
> > from the pipe.  I was wondering why? And also any other ways to do
> > this?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Jian
> 
> You need a netcat that uses shutdown(2) instead of close.  I have one, but not
> on my laptop.  I'll try to dig it up and send it to you.  (I really need to
> fix the one in busybox...)
> 
> Rob
>