Shell not working on MacOS

[Matthias Rebbe]

There was a discussion in 2019 about a similar thing.
The top/subject was     Challenge: who can background this shell command?

Matthias

> Am 30.04.2026 um 22:59 schrieb Bob Sneidar via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>:
> 
> I seem to remember something about this floating by a few years ago, but I can enter this command in terminal:
> 
> telnet mysql.iotecdigital.com 8086
> 
> I will get a response of some sort if the server is listening on that port, or else after it times out it will tell me.
> 
> If I use that command in a shell call from a script however I get the error:
> 
> /bin/sh: line 1: telnet: command not found
> 
> I believe there was some talk about the default shell changing, but when I check the terminal shell it is /bin/sh and so is the shellCommand property. Why is shell not working??
> 
> Also as an aside, can I change the timeout? If I don’t get a response on 5 seconds, the server is not listening or I cannot get to it.
> 
> Bob S
> 
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