Re: web-based telnet-quota system?

thanks for your advice and recommendations. where can i find more info on expect? ----- Original Message ----- From: Krznaric Michael <mkrznaric@rand.com> To: 'Corisen' <csyap@starnet.gov.sg>; Krznaric Michael <mkrznaric@rand.com> Cc: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2000 12:51 AM Subject: 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 > > -- > 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