[ale] telnet test

[jimpop at yahoo.com (Jim Popovitch)]

James P. Kinney III wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 16:25 -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Whats a good way to test (from within a shell script) for telnet 
>> availability on a remote host?  Would something like netcat be able to 
>> do this?
>>
> nmap -sT <remotehost> -p 21

Thanks Jim, but unfortunately namp isn't readily/easily available on the 
host platforms I am targeting.  I am trying to create a modestly 
portable script.  Thanks though.

-Jim P.