[Nova-developer] Testing problems

[Gord T. <gtu...@sh...>]

Ok guys, stupid question time again :) I need to do some testing on t=
he=20
autostar driver and don't seem to be able to get spiderd to accept an=
y=20
commands. I start up spiderd and telnet to the port and get the follo=
wing:

[gordt@www src]$ telnet localhost 10027
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1).
Escape character is '^]'.
[spider]
msgid=3D-62346280
scopes=3Dscpe1

[scpe1]
name=3Dds114
dome=3Dno
mount=3DEquatorial
location=3DWinnipeg
xy=3Dautostar
focus=3Dautostar

[Winnipeg]
name=3DWinnipeg
latitude=3D+35=BA40'00.000"
longitude=3D-5=BA36'30.000"
elevation=3D820
timezone=3DCET

[autostar]
controller=3Dautostar

#**#?
DATE
Connection closed by foreign host.


No matter what I try to enter, I just get a connection closed. The=
=20
daemon session says:

[gordt@www src]$ ./spiderd -w 7
spiderd (a Telescope Motion Control Daemon) - V 0.0.10
Using libnova - V 0.3.1
Using libspider - V 0.1.0
(C) 2000 by The Nova Project Team.
scopes: ds114
**> ds114
+> mount  Equatorial
+> Loc    Winnipeg
load plugin from "../drivers/.libs/libautostar.so"
autostar plugin: loaded
load plugin from "../drivers/.libs/libautostar.so"
+> XY     autostar
+> cam    (null)
+> focus  autostar
+> derot  (null)
+> filter (null)
+> meteo  (null)
+> dome   (null)
*------*
startup autostar version 1.00
speed now 9600
Telescope date read is 09/14/02#
startup autostar version 1.00
speed now 9600
Telescope date read is 09/14/02#
Initialization complete.

Garbage Collector Thread 1026 started

Waiting for service request on port 10027
Incoming connection accepted from: localhost.localdomain
New connection received from [127.0.0.1] localhost.localdomain
New connection received from [127.0.0.1] localhost.localdomain
Thread started: 2051
Thread started 2051
No scope selected, closing connection
joining thread ID 2051


How do I enter commands?

Regards,
  Gord