Sort of like CMSBATCH but with linux commands? Perverse idea to bring something
as archaic as cardreader supplied batch processing to the modern world of *n?x
computing. 

I like it. Does anyone have a package they can share that monitors the virtual
card reader of a linux SVM?

/Tom Kern

--- Adam Thornton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Oct 20, 2005, at 3:01 PM, Jay Maynard wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 02:53:48PM -0500, Adam Thornton wrote:
> >> On Oct 20, 2005, at 2:45 PM, Thomas Kern wrote:
> >>> I agree that if the traffic is staying within the box there is no
> >>> real
> >>> snooping problem. But we are trying to talk to linux servers and
> >>> some
> >>> paranoid security people do not want any clear-text traffic for
> >>> any linux
> >>> servers.
> >> In that case, do ur or IUCV and tell 'em it's not network traffic.
> > Merciful $DEITY. You mean you can start a shell on a reader/punch
> > combo?
> 
> Not as such, or at least, I've never tried.  But no reason you can't
> watch the reader, and when you get something in, receive it to a file
> and submit that file as a shell script, putting the redirected output
> of stdout and stderr back into the punch as, say $$.stdout and $
> $.stderr (where $$ expands to "the pid of that process").  A little
> magic to spool your punch to the appropriate user and run everything
> through EBCDIC <-> ASCII translation, and it's all good.
> 
> Adam
> 
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