On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 10:10 AM, hadi motamedi motamedi24@gmail.com wrote:
Dear All I need to schedule for a repeated task on my CentOS server, as the followings: -) Telnet to a remote node -) Issue a command -) Capture the output in a log -) Logout from Telnet -) Wait for a prescribed time interval -) Then redo , but append the subsequent output in just on file Can you please let me know which options do we have to write such a task? Thank you
Use cron to schedule the tasks.
if you need to automate an interactive command you can use expect [1][2]
[1] http://expect.nist.gov/ [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expect
HTH