I am trying to run a second perl script located on a remote box. When the script is kicked off it returns nothing until it returns to the prompt. Doing it with a Telnet session the script will not kick off because I am not able to do a match before the prompt returns. How do I keep the telnet session open long enough to run the script. 
my $th = new Net::Telnet (input_log => "$dir/$log",
                          dump_log => (*STDOUT),
                          Host => "$server",
                          Prompt => '/sybase?/');

print "******DUMPING $cltdb TRANSACTION******\n";

$th->login("user", "$unixpass");
my @lines = $th->cmd("backup.pl Server.Name=$dbsrvr Backup.Database=$c
+ltdb Backup.Type=tran");
$th->waitfor('/ /');
print @lines;
$th->waitfor('/sybase?/');
print @lines;

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In reply to Net::Telnet time outs by mnlight

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