use Net::Telnet ();
$username = "ackme";
$password = "XXXXXXXXX";
$t = new Net::Telnet (Timeout => 60);
$t->open("some.otherbox.com");
$t->login($username, $password);
@d = $t->cmd("date +%m%d%y");
chop(@d);
@lines = $t->cmd("tail -1 /home/ackme/eod.log.$d[0]");
$->logout;
open (LOG, ">>I:/perl/testlog") || "cannot create testlog! $!";
print LOG "the date: $d[0]\n";
chop @lines[0];
$correct = "eod complete exit status = 0";
if (${lines}[0] ne $correct)  {
print LOG "WARNING LOG NOT CORRECT!!";
} else {
print LOG "the last line of the EOD log is: \"$lines[0]\"\n";
}
close (LOG) || "can't close testlog: $!"

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