You don't need to use the admin tool to shutdown james, there are start/stop scripts which can be used to automate james.
Having a prompt to allow scripts to perform admin tasks sounds like a reasonable request though. If you want to have a go at making the change yourself look at this file: http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/james/server/trunk/src/java/org/apache/james/remotemanager/RemoteManagerHandler.java?view=markup and this block: while (parseCommand(in.readLine())) { theWatchdog.reset(); } I think you need to output the prompt once before the while, and in the loop. d. |---------+----------------------------> | | Russell E Glaue | | | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>| | | | | | 21/09/2005 16:16 | | | Please respond to| | | "James Users | | | List" | |---------+----------------------------> >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | | | To: James Users List <[email protected]> | | cc: | | Subject: Re: Give James' telnet:4555 service a prompt | >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| > What do you mean by prompt? Just the first message that is sent when > you connect? How configurable would you expect this to be? Well, I mean something like a shell prompt. When you telnet to port 4555, you get no prompt. If you telnet to Linux which bash shell, you might get the '-bash-3.00% ' prompt (for example). When using the Perl Net::Telnet module, it wants and expects a prompt to be defined so it knows when it can send the next list of characters for a command. So for example, if I could configure the prompt to be 'james> ', then this can happen in my terminal: -bash-3.00$ telnet localhost 4555 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1). Escape character is '^]'. JAMES Remote Administration Tool 2.2.0 Please enter your login and password Login id: root Password: ******** Welcome root. HELP for a list of commands james> listusers Existing accounts 1 user: jamesadmin james> quit Bye Connection closed by foreign host. -bash-3.00$ * Note, the appearance of 'james> ' is a prompt I would like to have defined. Currently you are given nothing to prompt you that you can start entering a command. And then I could make a little PERL script to shutdown JAMES like this: -bash-3.00$ cat james-shutdown.pl ##!/bin/bash use Net::Telnet; use strict; my $telnet = new Net::Telnet ( Host => "localhost", Port => "4555", Prompt => "/^james>/"); $telnet->open(); $telnet->waitfor(/Login id:\s*\n/); $telnet->print("root"); $telnet->waitfor(/Password:\s*\n/); $telnet->print("********"); $telnet->cmd("shutdown"); print $telnet->getlines(); $telnet->close(); __END__ -bash-3.00$ So you can see one importance of having a defined prompt for the administrative shell on telnet:4555 JAMES admin service. If we admins want to execute automated tasks, like shutdown, add user, from other programs/scripts, we need a prompt to appear to tell the script when it can input information. So I ask again. Can a shell prompt for the JAMES admin service on port 4555 be defined? How can I do this? Actually, I do not really care too much what the prompt is. I just want a prompt. -RG Serge Knystautas wrote: > On 8/17/05, Russell E Glaue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Who can tell me (without having to change the source code) how to define >>a prompt the telnet service JAMES has on port 4555 for administration? >>Is it possible to set the prompt? Configure a prompt somewhere? >>If not, can this be added into a future release of JAMES so that >>administrators can define a prompt if they like? >>Anyone have any philosophy on this matter? > > > What do you mean by prompt? Just the first message that is sent when > you connect? 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