Bridging console port to a telnet session

[Kailas Ramasamy]

Hi Mike,
I read through fork() and exec() man pages but I couldn't find anything
related to
this. Basically, I want to launch a telnet session from a process and pass
in
/dev/console as stdin and stdout.

Thanks
Kailas

On 1/16/07, Mike Meyer <mwm at mired.org> wrote:
>
> In <ecd0bee40701161732v26112f24o2d8323c2777d2f7 at mail.gmail.com>, Kailas
> Ramasamy <kailasr at gmail.com> typed:
> > Hi Mike,
> > Yes, that what I am planing but I want to do this dynamically. Do you
> know
> > how to launch a
> > telnet session from a process?. How do I pass stdin and stdout to the
> telnet
> > from a process?.
>
> See the fork() and exec() man pages.
>
>         <mike
>
>
> > On 1/16/07, Mike Meyer <mwm at mired.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > In <ecd0bee40701161503k385819ddgba5562e137630617 at mail.gmail.com>,
> Kailas
> > > Ramasamy <kailasr at gmail.com> typed:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > Within a FreeBSD system, I want to telnet to another system and
> bridge
> > > that
> > > > session to the
> > > > console port so that when an user connects to the system via console
> > > port,
> > > > it is automatically
> > > > redirected to other system for I have already established a telnet
> > > session.
> > >
> > > What's wrong with simply leaving a telnet session running on the
> > > console, maybe with some support to relaunch it should it ever exit?
> > >
> > >         <mike
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