On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 18:52 -0700, Kurt Granroth wrote: > Craig White wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 18:21 -0700, Kurt Granroth wrote: > >> Am I out of luck, here? Or is there some commonly available utility out > >> there that can open up a socket for me? > > ---- > > perhaps I am missing something but there is a package called 'expect' > > which does essentially what you want. > > Can 'expect' open up a socket? I've used it a few times in the past to > automate telnet and the like but the fact that I had to use telnet > implies that expect doesn't have inherent socket capability. > > I'll admit that I haven't used expect in awhile, though, and even then, > I didn't use it a lot... ---- nothing in the man page to suggest it but you are much more knowledgeable about this stuff than I because I just assumed that a socket is a mknod file somewhere with permissions set to allow specific users/demons to pass data. -- Craig White --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss