Interactive session via tcp

[Thomas Guettler]

Andreas Ames wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I have a python daemon running with access to an XML messaging system
> (jabber in this case).  I'm wondering, how I can achieve remote
> control over my daemon.
> 
> The first thing that I can think of is to start an interactive session
> via the XML stream.  Security is not my concern right now.  Following
> steps seem to be required, afaik (please correct me, if my assumptions
> are wrong).
> 
> 1) Deamon receives a command to open an interactive session.
> 
> 2) The main thread of my daemon starts a read/eval loop and redirects
>    stdout and stder.


Sorry, if this if wrong, I read your post quickly.
Doesn't "telnet jabber_port" do what you want?

thomas