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From: Mark Sapiro <msapiro@value.net>
Subject: Re: Can kermit take its configuration from stdin? (Unix)
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 10:34:56 -0700
Organization: Not Very Much
Message-ID: <371A17C0.3894FCEE@value.net>
To: kermit.misc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu
Frank da Cruz wrote:
>>>
In article <7f60oo$ihc$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
<john_cosimano@my-dejanews.com> wrote:
>>>
In article <7f5gkv$r1o$1@newsmaster.cc.columbia.edu>,
fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz) wrote:
> In article <7f5f9b$2vp$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
> <john_cosimano@my-dejanews.com> wrote:
> : I am trying to figure out if there is a way to have kermit take its
> : configration file from stdin.
>
> : > No. Why not just pass the device name on the command line? Example:
>
> kermit -l /dev/ttyS0
>
> Or in a shell script:
>
> kermit -l $1
Yeah, that's what I'm doing now. I have a bunch of configuration files, and I
wrote my wrapper script so that kermit gets called like: `kermit -y
/usr/lib/kermit/configs/some_config_file`. The problem I was looking to solve
is that if I want to make a change to the configuration files, I now have 256
files on which to make the change. I figured if I could make kermit get it's
configuration from stdin, I would only have one file...
Oh, well, there is more than one way to skin a cat
<<<
Indeed. If you can describe the actual problem you are trying to solve,
maybe I can be more helpful.
- Frank
<<<
John's original post said "The only configuration directive that
needs to change from file to file is the set line /dev/ttyC#."
If this is in fact the case, it is hard to see why simply removing the
set line directive from the configuration file and using the -l option
on the command line won't work.
However, if there is really a need to have kermit read a dynamically
built initialization file, why not just build it in the wrapper script
and then write it to say /tmp/process-number.ksc and then invoke kermit
with "kermit -y /tmp/process-number.ksc".
--
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San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan