remote command execute telnet with 1 command
 

Hello,
How I can make a script that connects to a remote computer via telnet and executes a single command (reboot).
The reason that I want to do that is because I want to make a simple script that pings some host and if it is down the linux box will connect via telnet to gateway and reboots it.

Create a script with expect that will be invoked from a shell script if ping fails:
This code might be slightly wrong. Look at the expect documentation.

WARNING! The username/password combination can be viewed by anyone who reads the script! I use sudo because reboot requires root access, and don't even think about putting the root in a script.

If security is an issue, use ssh with a public key setup. Then you could do a remote reboot by running:

$ ssh root@remote.host.com /sbin/reboot

or

$ ssh user@remote.host.com sudo /sbin/reboot

Or even add one of these to your .bashrc file to make it really easy:

alias remote_reboot='ssh root@remote.host.com /sbin/reboot'

alias remote_reboot='ssh user@remote.host.com sudo /sbin/reboot'

There should be heaps of info about setting up sshd properly here, or through Google.

~sind