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ncat exec or sending a one-shot login string
From: Brian Franklin <brian.is.still () gmail com>
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2015 10:02:36 -0500
Hi there! I'm a big fan of ncat, particularly the ssl support. Well done! Recently, I'm trying to use it from within cron. I can't seem to get it to work. Basically, I connect as a client and then pass a login string to a remote server, and then it streams some data to me, which I then pipe to another process. I use something like: cat "login" - | ncat -C --ssl [server] [port] | [some other script] This works perfectly from the command line (it always does...) but the cron job won't work. Turning up the verbosity provides some interesting clues, but I don't know how to interpret most of it. I've applied all my standard "tricks" for debugging a cron job, but I'm getting nowhere. The closest I've come is that it might be related to my use of 'cat' and it's reliance on stdin to 'hold' the pipe open? If I remove the last pipe, and just collect the ncat output using the MTA from cron, then it reports a successful connection, but it just seems to quit after that. What I'm trying to achieve is this: 1. Connect to remote server 2. Send login string (really just an identity) 3. Receive data 4. Pipe data to another script for processing Sending the login string is a one-shot deal; after that it's all uni-directional communication and I don't send anything back. I have no control over the remote server. Using ncat 6.40 on Ubuntu 14.04. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks, Brian
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