Telnetting automatically

Baz_ · 18-11-2001 04:13AM #1

For my internet I must telnet to the local university server, and every hour I get kicked and have to relogin, so what I was wondering was: Is there anyway of invoking telnet (or a telnet like app) from the command line that will log me in automatically, for example every hour. I've been searching about but couldn't find anything, or perhaps I could write my own, so does anyone have any info on that???

moist · 18-11-2001 04:41AM

Does it kick you after an hour, or after an hour being idle ?

If you can ssh to the machine you could use an rsa key with ssh-agent or pagent which will cache the
passphrase for your key and pass that off to ssh or putty respectively when they need it.

On the other hand you could use expect.
Somthing like...

#!/usr/local/bin/expect
spawn telnet hoost.com
expect "ogin:"
send "my_username"
expect "assword:"
send "my_password\n"

Baz_ · 18-11-2001 05:12AM

****ing hell mate, thats a lot for one breathful. whoo!!

yeah i did something like that using perl and it works like a charm, I'm using windows by the way, going by yer shebang line I would say you're using unix. Indeed with a little further testing, expect is not even a command in Windows, ta for the quick reply though, mucho appreciato:D

Baz_

Baz_ · 18-11-2001 11:31PM

Does anyone know how to get a batch file to exit when its finished???

phaxx · 19-11-2001 01:06AM

You mean close the window?
er, I think put @echo off as the first line. I *think*

Baz_ · 19-11-2001 03:02AM

good man trying that now

<result>
worked like a charm, ta
</result>

Telnetting automatically

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