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- From: caw@miroc.Chi.IL.US (Christopher A. Wichura)
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- Subject: Re: Can ARexx control Commodores TCP/IP software?
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- References: <1992Dec23.182321.62256@cc.usu.edu> <aA3cs*uN0@prolix.apana.org.au>
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- Date: 26 Dec 92 07:19:26 CST
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- In article <aA3cs*uN0@prolix.apana.org.au> dac@prolix.apana.org.au (Andrew Clayton) writes:
- > In article <1992Dec23.182321.62256@cc.usu.edu>, Joshua Dinerstein writes:
- >
- > > A good friend of mine needs to run some commands on a local machine
- > > every morning at 6:00. Now while this might not seem bad to some of you he has
- >
- > Use a CRON program to take care of things that need to be started
- > at a certain time.
-
- (Might I suggest CyberCron v1.5?... :->)
-
- A cron is needed here, yes, but is not the focus of the question. It would
- appear that what the original poster wants is a way to have arexx send
- certain commands to the requireed machine. A cron could certainly start
- rlogin, but it can't make it type in the needed commands.
-
- Unfortunately, the AS225 package does not have ARexx support in it, so this
- can not be done using rlogin. One possible solution would be to give the
- fellow's amiga rsh priviliages on the required machine so that a cron could
- run the needed commands via rsh. This, unfortuately, doesn't work well when
- one needs to run something with interactive queries (i.e., "are you sure
- (y/n)?" questions could not be done, although I suppose using a "yes" handler
- might make this possible).
-
- If you're patient, you'll be able to do this much more easily under the newer
- AS225 stuff which is in beta. (Note that this statement relies on something
- other than rlogin and is not an implication of ARexx support that may or may
- not be present in the newer version.)
-
- -=> CAW
-
- --
-
- Christopher A. Wichura Multitasking. Just DO it.
- caw@miroc.chi.il.us (my amiga) ...the Amiga way...
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