On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 13:48, Marc Shapiro wrote: > Does anyone know if there is a way to pass a parameter to a telnet session? > > I have set up a user on one box that does not require a password to log > in. I telnet to his account from another box using: > > telnet hostname -l username > > I want to be able to pass a parameter of some kind, or set an > environment variable that I can test in .bash_profile and determine the > specific action to be taken depending on its value. Is this possible, > or am I barking up the wrong tree?
This is pretty vague, you want to test a variable from the client system or the host system? Who should take an action? The easiest way to make a non-interactive telnet session "do something" is to change the login shell to (for example) /home/username/do_something.sh instead of /bin/bash. -Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
