On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 06:02:04PM -0500, malia, sean wrote: > Hello, > > This is my 1st post here, so excuse if this is a silly question. I'm going > to work on a script that will execute commands on a remote system, and I'm > curious as to what the better mechanism is, Perl's expect or Telnet module ? > Are there any pros or cons to each ? I'm not doing anything that > complicated and I'm not worried about security (isolated LAN).
Depends on the remote system: some systems' telnet daemon relies way too heavily on the telnet protocol being in place: <http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc854.html> Faking this is no fun. > Any thoughts ?? > > Any help is much appreciated. > _______________________________________________ > Boston-pm mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm -- Brian 'you Bastard' Reichert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 37 Crystal Ave. #303 Daytime number: (603) 434-6842 Derry NH 03038-1713 USA BSD admin/developer at large _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
