Hi NorthenMonk

Although I agree wholeheartedly with other monk's suggestions of using ssh, I believe this will give you what you're looking for. 

#!d:/perl/bin/perl -w

use strict;
 
my $username = "dave";
my $passwd = "mypass";
my $debug = "debug";
my $root = "su";
my $rootpass = "myrootpass";
use Net::Telnet ();
my $t = new Net::Telnet (Timeout => 10,
            Dump_Log => $debug,
                       );
$t->open("IP address here");
$t->login($username, $passwd);
$t->print($root);
$t->waitfor('/Password:/');
$t->print($rootpass);
$t->waitfor('/#/');
my @lines = $t->cmd("whoami");
print @lines;

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Dump_Log will be very useful for you as well when working through this problem. Hope this helps.

cheers, -semio

In reply to Re: shuting down a linux-server by semio
in thread shuting down a linux-server by NorthenMonk

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