James wrote: > Hello, > > I work in this annoying company where I have to autheticate myself to > the company firewall every 30-50 minutes in order to access the > internet. (I think it's a checkpoint fw). > > I have to run "telnet what.ever.ip.address 259" then it prompts me > with userid, then password, then I have to select "1". Then the > program closes itself and the internet is enabled. > > I would like to automate this process with Python and run it every 30 > miniutes so I don't have to keep typing in these userid/password > everytime. How can this be done? Is there a module I can use to > interact with the shell? (I'm running linux) > > Thank you. > > James >
You shouldn't have to work through the shell. Just connect directly via telnetlib. Here is an example that you should be able to modify easily to meet your needs. http://docs.python.org/lib/telnet-example.html -Larry -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
