From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 20 2:52:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freebsd.tekrealm.net (40bc21de.dsl.flashcom.net [64.188.33.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65A8037B479 for ; Fri, 20 Oct 2000 02:52:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from elite (elite.tekrealm.net [64.188.33.218]) by freebsd.tekrealm.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id CAA12136 for ; Fri, 20 Oct 2000 02:52:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd@tekrealm.net) Message-ID: <000f01c03a7b$81e634f0$da21bc40@tekrealm.net> From: "Elitetek" To: Subject: help with script Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 02:52:49 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have a program that is a server, i have it loading with a script in rc.d with the boot of the machine. It listens on a certain port, but doesnt have a command line way of exiting it. i need to come up with a way to access the port it is listening on, and echo "quit" to it. i have seen things do that with myport.in and you echo to that.. how would i go about doing something like this? Thanks in advance To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message