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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!news.ecn.bgu.edu!newspump.wustl.edu!newsreader.wustl.edu!usenet From: Matt Rosenberg <matt@server.wulaw.wustl.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.lang.perl.misc Subject: Modem control script Date: Wed, 27 Dec 1995 14:47:38 -0600 Organization: Washington University School of Law Lines: 28 Message-ID: <30E1B0EA.4DD0@server.wulaw.wustl.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: @128.252.30.222 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b4 (Win95; I) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:11547 comp.lang.perl.misc:11551 I am trying to automate a daily batch download from a BBS via modem using FreeBSD 2.1.0. I am using ecu BETA-3.34.56 and rz (The standard FreeBSD port) version 3.36. I created a wonderful ecu script which works if I can have someone personally logged in as root (or a sudoer) but I cannot automate it because when I put ecu (or an .sh script calling ecu) in the crontab, ecu throws a fit. [I have tried setting the TERM variable in the .sh script and sending stdout to /dev/tty both without luck.] I thought I would then try tip and converted my ecu script to perl to interface with tip. But rz does not want to work with tip even separated from the perl script (the man page warned me ahead of time "not designed for use with tip or cu"). When I try piping tip to rz, rz starts sending headers "**B010000012f4ced" and will never initiate the actual transfer. Anyone have an idea for a work around either place? A Perl solution would actually be preferable Thank you! -- ============================================= Matt Rosenberg Washington University School of Law St. Louis, MO, USA matt@www.wulaw.wustl.edu http://www.wulaw.wustl.edu/~matt/ =============================================