Jason is correct, use both! The system may indeed be waiting for the sequence to be completed, only when both the <CR>& <LF> come in. In your case, the <CR> is missing and it is likely the system considers that an invalid (incomplete? bad syntax?) command line.
In WhatsUp Gold (and probably many other applications): \r = Carriage Return <CR> \n = Newline <LF> (or Line Feed, depending on your terminology) Many systems/protocols require both a <CR> and <LF> before accepting the command as complete. I've even seen systems badly affected (not work) when the order was reversed to <LF><CR>. Once had to tell a programmer to change the order and he moaned and groaned saying it should not matter (but RFCs often say it does, in this case it was an email client application), but once it was changed to the "correct order", things worked perfectly. My suggestion is that you make it a habit to send both (and in the specified order!) even if the system responds with just one of the pair. If you don't, you will likely go down this painful path again! Daniel Donnelly ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jason Dennis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2004 9:13 AM Subject: Re: [WhatsUp Forum] Telneting to a Unix workstation.. WUG script > Try using \r\n in combination - here is a snippet from a check we do > against a Solaris 9 machine... > > Line000=Send=GET /whatsup HTTP/1.0\r\n\r\n > > -Jason > > > On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 08:26:40 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Actually did some further investigation last night, and discovered what the > > issue might be. It seems that everytime I do a "Send=userid\n", the unix > > server does not recognize /n as a new line value. The Sun server behaves as > > if it is still waiting for a "CR" to be sent and thus never even sends over > > a Password prompt. > > > > Anyone know what the value for a carriage return might be for a Sun Server? > > I know it is \n for unix, and \r for almost everything else.. but \n is > > not working on any of my Sun machines. > > > > The reason for my doing this quite simple. We run Sybase on Sun servers, > > and I need to login to Sybase to verify database consistency. > > > > Thanks, > > - Harry > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/whatsup_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
