[ale] telnet test

[Christopher Fowler]

 perl -MIO::Socket -e '$s = new IO::Socket::INET(PeerAddr=>"127.0.0.1",
PeerPort=> 23, Proto =>"tcp") or die "$!\n";'

On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 16:50 -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> James P. Kinney III wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 16:25 -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> Whats a good way to test (from within a shell script) for telnet 
> >> availability on a remote host?  Would something like netcat be able to 
> >> do this?
> >>
> > nmap -sT <remotehost> -p 21
> 
> Thanks Jim, but unfortunately namp isn't readily/easily available on the 
> host platforms I am targeting.  I am trying to create a modestly 
> portable script.  Thanks though.
> 
> -Jim P.
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