The cmd sent to the remote telnet will not run

mnlight has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Can anyone tell me why the command does not run on the remote shell it simply echos the commnand to the log.

my $th = new Net::Telnet (Timeout => 5,
                          #Errmode => 'die',
                          input_log => 'telnet_prompt.log',
                          Prompt => '/$username?/');
$th->open("$server");
$th->login("$user", "$unixpass");
@lines = $th->cmd("backup_sybase.pl Server.Name=$instance Backup.Datab
+ase=$cltdb");
print @lines;
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Re: The cmd sent to the remote telnet will not run by sedhed (Scribe) on Aug 02, 2002 at 20:07 UTC
I'm going to guess that it's one of two things: Your prompt setting is not being matched. (Did you mean to use both `$user` and `$username` in your code?) You can use the `dump_log()` method to check for this stuff. The literal command `backup_sybase.pl` is not found. Perhaps you need to give it a path such as `./backup_sybase.pl` or maybe `/usr/local/something/backup_sybase.pl`? Also, I could very well be wrong, but my take on the docs is that you want the prompt() setting to match the whole prompt, not just a portion of it. cheers!	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Re: The cmd sent to the remote telnet will not run by mnlight (Scribe) on Aug 02, 2002 at 20:26 UTC
I added a waitfor and it seems to work fine. Thanks	[reply]
Re: The cmd sent to the remote telnet will not run by JayBonci (Curate) on Aug 02, 2002 at 19:57 UTC
Are you working under `use strict`? My first question would be to ask why you are looking for a prompt with `$username`, and you log in with `$user`. But that's the only thing I'd see off the top of my head. Good luck --jb	[reply]
Re: The cmd sent to the remote telnet will not run by BorgCopyeditor (Friar) on Aug 02, 2002 at 20:00 UTC
Maybe because you're not assigning anything to the key "#Errmode" ... the pound sign introduces a comment. You'll have to escape it. BCE --Your punctuation skills are insufficient!	[reply]