Automating Telnet Sessions

Hi,
I am trying to automate telnet sessions to retrive information from a linux
box. The box is not running a full-featured version of linux, embedded linux,
has very limited sources, memory, computing power and etc. What I am trying
to do is connect to the box, run some commands, save the telnet session in
a file. This has to be happening in a timely-fashion without user
interaction. What all I'm looking for is a small application or script that
runs on Windows platform.

Any thoughts, suggestions and etc appreciated,
Thanks.

On 2004-10-27, Siva Palaninathan <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> has very limited sources, memory, computing power and etc. What I am trying
> to do is connect to the box, run some commands, save the telnet session in
> a file.

Use expect.
Davide

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Siva Palaninathan wrote:

>
> Hi,
> I am trying to automate telnet sessions to retrive information from a
> linux box. The box is not running a full-featured version of linux,
> embedded linux, has very limited sources, memory, computing power and etc.
> What I am trying to do is connect to the box, run some commands, save the
> telnet session in a file. This has to be happening in a timely-fashion
> without user interaction. What all I'm looking for is a small application
> or script that runs on Windows platform.
>
> Any thoughts, suggestions and etc appreciated,
> Thanks.

Ssh supports that sort of thing. Or failing that, what about some of the
"r" commands, though you have to be careful about security with those.

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On 27 Oct 2004 17:45:03 GMT, Siva Palaninathan <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I am trying to automate telnet sessions to retrive information from a linux
> box. The box is not running a full-featured version of linux, embedded linux,
> has very limited sources, memory, computing power and etc. What I am trying
> to do is connect to the box, run some commands, save the telnet session in
> a file. This has to be happening in a timely-fashion without user
> interaction. What all I'm looking for is a small application or script that
> runs on Windows platform.
>
> Any thoughts, suggestions and etc appreciated,

Perl is available for Windows, and it has an optional Net::Telnet module
available.