You are right that I am trying to connect to a Windows m/c from a Solaris
server.
But when I used the below code, it gets connected but I am having problem
displaying the output:
my $telnet = Net::Telnet->new(HOST => "$server",
Dump_log => "telnetdump.txt",
PROMPT => '/[>]/');
$telnet->login('user', 'pass');
$telnet->cmd('ls -l >lsop.log');
after running this program, lsop.log is being created but I don't see
anything in it.
If I can display the output, I am all good. Please suggest!!!
Thanks in Advance.
Regards,
Lakshmi
952-833-1220
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From: Chas Owens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 6:41 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: beginners@perl.org
Subject: Re: Prompt in Net::Telnet
On 6/12/07, Lakshmi Sailaja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am supposed to write a program that will telnet to a remote server and
> execute some commands. I get the following error:
> "timed-out waiting for command prompt at <file name> line <line number>"
>
> This is because the prompt is not set correctly. Can you please tell me
what
> the prompt value should be set to?
>
> how can I determine my remote machines prompt?
>
> Thanks in advance!!
>
> Regards,
> Sailaja
>
>
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If you are trying to connect to the "telnet" server that comes with
Microsoft OSes then you are SOL. If you are trying to connect to a
different telnet server, then please provide the name of the server
and operating system it is running under so we can duplicate your
environment.
from Perldoc Net::Telnet
Connecting to a Remote MS-Windows Machine
By default MS-Windows doesn't come with a TELNET server. However
third
party TELNET servers are available. Unfortunately many of these
servers falsely claim to be a TELNET server. This is especially true
of the so-called "Microsoft Telnet Server" that comes installed with
some newer versions MS-Windows.
When a TELNET server first accepts a connection, it must use the
ASCII
control characters carriage-return and line-feed to start a new line
(see RFC854). A server like the "Microsoft Telnet Server" that
doesn't
do this, isn't a TELNET server. These servers send ANSI terminal
escape sequences to position to a column on a subsequent line and to
even position while writing characters that are adjacent to each
other.
Worse, when sending output these servers resend previously sent
command
output in a misguided attempt to display an entire terminal screen.
Connecting Net::Telnet to one of these false TELNET servers makes
your
job of parsing command output very difficult. It's better to replace
a
false TELNET server with a real TELNET server. The better TELNET
servers for MS-Windows allow you to avoid the ANSI escapes by turning
off something some of them call console mode.
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