Help using telnetlib to install/remove rpms

[Markus Schaber]

Hello,

Rebecca Hepper <Rebecca.R.Hepper at seagate.com> schrub:

> max_wait = 30
> 
> tn=Telnet(ipAddress)
> tn.read_until("login: ", max_wait)
> tn.write("username\n")
> tn.read_until("Password: ", max_wait)
> tn.write("password\n")
> 
> # change to superuser, can't install rpm as normal user
> tn.write("su\n")
> tn.read_until("Password: ", max_wait)
> tn.write("password\n")
> 
> tn.write("rpm -e myrpm-7.00-1\n")
> tn.write("rpm -i myrpm-7.01-1.i386.rpm\n")
> tn.write("exit\n")

For debugging reasons, it would be nice to see the responses from the 
telnet server - may be you should use TCPDump or ethereal and capture 
the packets on the net, so we can see what really happens on the net.
 
Does the su work? Did you try some commands like "echo" or so to test 
whether the shell accepts other commands?

markus

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