Problems in LD 2 - STAD script

[drange]

I have a computer running Debian connected to the Nortel Meridian Opt 81. At 0430 a.m., a script is running to syncronize the system clock with our NTP server.

So the script goes as following:

ntpdate ntp.serverfarm
echo "logi username" > /dev/ttyS1
sleep 1
echo "********" > /dev/ttyS1
sleep 1
echo "ld 2" > /dev/ttyS1
sleep 1
echo stad $(date [a_long_string])
sleep 1
echo "****" > /dev/ttyS1
sleep 1
echo "logo" > /dev/ttyS1


The problem is where I set the date (the stad line). When it has sent the whole line but the seconds, a strange character appears insted of i.e. 42.
Then I get the TRC0200 (Syntax error) and nothing happens.

So I guess the Opt 81 is incapable of receiving text that fast, but I don't know how to fix this problem...

So, any ideas?

 

[johnpoole]

here is the one i use, this one logs me on and sets the time, and date.. the txpace line slows the script down to switch speed..

proc main
   
   ;loop:

   set txpace 50	
   transmit "****^M"
   waitfor ">"
   transmit "john^M"
   
   transmit "****^M"
   waitfor ">"
   transmit "log iXXXX^M"
   pause 1 
   transmit "XXXXX^M"
  
   call myproc 
   
   
   ;goto loop
endproc
proc myproc   
integer iDay, iMonth, iYear, iMin, iHour, iSec
string sSend
  
   ltimeints $LTIME iYear iMonth iDay iHour iMin iSec
   
   strfmt sSend "STAD %02d %02d %d %02d %02d %02d" iDay iMonth iYear iHour iMin iSec
   set txpace 30
   transmit "****^M"
   waitfor ">"
   
  ; pause 6
   
   transmit "ld 2^M"
   waitfor "."
   
   transmit "TTAD^M"
   waitfor "."
   transmit sSend
   transmit "^M"
   waitfor "."
   
   pause 2
   transmit "TTAD^M"
  
   pause 2
   transmit "****^M"
 
  endproc

john poole
bellsouth business
columbia,sc

 

[Firebird Scrambler]

I've modified John's excellent script to automatically update some of my customers systems when I log into them via a modem. It saves me having to remember it.

All the best

Firebird Scrambler
Meridian Programmer in the UK

http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/firebird_scrambler

 

[johnpoole]

thanks, coming from you, i'm going to frame it

john poole
bellsouth business
columbia,sc

 

[drange]

You aren't actually helping. I'm not using procomm. What I wrote is a bash script. And the problem is that echo sends character faster than LD 2 can receive. So what I really needs, is to find out how to halt echo in the middle of a line for half a second. I guess this is the wrong place to ask...

 

[GHTROUT]

They are helping you to realize it might not be the right forum. They might have even made all that stuff up, but I can confirm they were being honest. You've got to give credit for that.

It looks like you need to ask in comp.dcom.halt-echo-in-half-second. I know the moderator, tell him you speke to Noman.