[Xastir] automated objects

[S-Man]

Curt, WE7U wrote:

> On Thu, 29 Jul 2004, Brenda O'Hagan wrote:
> 
> 
>>is there a way to feed objects into xastir automatically, and update them too.
>>the help file tells me that objects are recorded in
>>~/.xastior/config/object.log
>>
>>i've tried adding to this file using what looks like the right syntax, but it
>>doesn't seem to be read again by a running xastir process.
> 
> 
> It only reads that file when it starts up, and writes to it whenever
> any of its owned objects are tweaked.
> 
> The way to do it now would be to "telnet localhost 2023" with a
> script, authenticate (send it the user/pass string), inject the
> packet, then disconnect.  Perl can do this quite nicely.
> 
> You'll need to enable the listening port on the Interface menu for
> this to work.  If you turn on igating the packets can go up to the
> servers as well.
> 
> --
> Curt, WE7U			         http://www.eskimo.com/~archer
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You might like to try an "expect" script. Expect is a very simple app to 
automate a telnet session. It can "learn" how to do it by recording your 
manual session. Then you go back and edit the script that it generated 
in the learning process.

Steve-   w8an