use warnings; use strict; use Socket; my ($remote,$port, $iaddr, $paddr, $proto, $line); $remote = $ARGV[0] || die "usage: $0 hostname"; $port = 22 ; # the SSH port $iaddr = inet_aton($remote) || die "no such host: $remote"; $paddr = sockaddr_in($port, $iaddr); $proto = getprotobyname('tcp'); socket(SOCK, PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, $proto) || die "socket() failed: $!"; print "Connecting to port 22...\n"; connect(SOCK, $paddr) || die "connect() failed: $!"; print "Connected.\n"; $line = ; print $line; exit 0 if $line =~ /SSH/; exit 1;