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Subject: Re: Launching a telnet session from a process
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On 1/17/07, Kailas Ramasamy <ramadas@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> How do I launch a telnet session from a process and tell that session to
> use console port (/dev/console) for stdin and stdout?. Appreciate your help.
>
> I read through fork() and exec() man pages but it is not mentioned there.

Personally I'd use expect around the telnet, and then send the output
to any file desired.

Mike
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