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774788 2009-05-17 23:27:00 Does anyone know of a simple, unobtrusive Telnet client that I can set to automatically start on bootup, connect to an IP, and save the output in a .txt or .csv file?

Hyperterminal kind of works, but not as simply as I'd like.
nofam (9009)
774789 2009-05-18 01:49:00 Cygwin version of telnet? MushHead (10626)
774790 2009-05-18 02:07:00 putty.

supports telnet ssh serial and more.
lightweight.

easy.
robsonde (120)
774791 2009-05-18 02:53:00 ^ x2 - putty has a brilliant array of CLI options; you can automate it for most tasks you're likely to want.

Netcat's also brilliant, if there is a Windows version of it around (I don't know if there is).
Erayd (23)
774792 2009-05-19 02:57:00 Ok, so I got PuTTY to load a config via command line, and dump it to the log file, but is there any way to have it run as a system service? The box it's running on is a terminal server, so every time I log off the admin session, it kills the program.

Is there another way to do this?

I'm actually tempted to use this as an excuse to learn C++ and write one myself, but I suspect Telnet clients aren't the easiest place to kick off your programing :p
nofam (9009)
774793 2009-05-19 05:06:00 PuTTY isn't a service - if you want to run it as one, you'll need to write a wrapper for it.

Alternatively, just use the windows scheduler to run it :).

Note that if you just disconnect the session, rather than logging it off, PuTTY will keep right on trucking.
Erayd (23)
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