RE: [PHP] web-based telnet-quota system?

As you can see there are a few options. Galvin Max suggest a socket connection. With this you have to take certain security issues into account. This is always the case when allowing the web_user which is basically anyone and everyone to execute files. To answer your question about except. It is a lanugage based on TCL. You can execute is as a CGI script just like you would perl #!/path/to/expect . It has many complex options but you could get by with the simple ones. Just to give you an example. expect "login:" send "loginname\n" expect "Password:*" sleep 5 send "password\n" #Here you're expecting the prompt expect "*$*" send "cd /home3/app/oracle/product/8.1.7/ows/ows/4.0/www/hr_pl_sql_file \n" ... It's your choice. You have a few options. Mike -----Original Message----- From: Corisen [mailto:csyap@starnet.gov.sg] Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2000 11:29 AM To: Krznaric Michael Cc: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] web-based telnet-quota system? thanks for your advice. is "expect" a programming language, toolkit or something else? can it be used to code web-based program to "telnet" to another remote server? pls enlighten me. thanks. ----- Original Message ----- From: Krznaric Michael <mkrznaric@rand.com> To: 'Casen Yap' <casenyap@cyberway.com.sg>; <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2000 12:19 AM Subject: RE: [PHP] web-based telnet-quota system? > I would advise against using PHP for interactive commands such as telnet. > Did you consider expect? > > Mike > > -----Original Message----- > From: Casen Yap [mailto:casenyap@cyberway.com.sg] > Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2000 11:23 AM > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP] web-based telnet-quota system? > > > hi, we have a netapp filer that stores all our user home directory. there's > a text-based config file that controls the uesr quotas. > > currently, to changed user quota, we need to edit the quota file, telnet to > netapp, execute a "quota off" and then "quota on" command to effect the > change. > > i'm thinking of using PHP to write a web-based program to automate this > process. > > pls kindly advise how should i go about doing it. > > thanks. > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net