[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > Hi folks, > > I'm trying to use the nmap runtime interaction feature while using it > with the subprocess module. For those not familiar with nmap, the > runtime interaction feature allow users to get informations about the > scan stats during the nmap execution. More at: > http://www.insecure.org/nmap/man/man-runtime-interaction.html > If someone want to try, just run nmap and try to type some keys to see > what happens. This only works with nmap 4.00 and above. > > Ok.. What I've tried is shown below: > > from subprocess import Popen, PIPE > nmap = Popen("nmap -T3 -A 10.0.0.1-254", stdin=PIPE, stdout=PIPE, > stderr=PIPE, shell=True, bufsize=1) > > To interact with nmap, I tried: > > nmap.communicate("?") > > And I tried this, also: > > nmap.stdin.write("?") > nmap.stdout.read() > > What's wrong? Is that suposed to be this way? Is there a better way to > interact with it that I've missed? Any help is very welcome. Thanks in > advance!
Programs that interact with users usually require a terminal to be run from. This is not the case when using pipes. Use pexpect. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list