I'm getting pretty frustrated with this Net::Telnet command prompt criteria. I will put my code below in a pre statement. The problem I am having is that the unix servers I'm connecting to each have a different command prompt and multiple users. The SA recently changed the command prompt to a two-tiered prompt and now it's caused my code to fail. Is there anyway to pre-determine a machine's prompt during the telnet session or is there anyway around this?

This is a subroutine that I call. It reads in a password file which currently contains (user|password|prompt). 
sub create_telnet
{
    my( $host, $pass, ) = @_;
    my ( $user, $passwd, $prompt ) = read_password_file( $host, $pass 
+);

    my $telnet = new Net::Telnet (Timeout => 20,
                                  Binmode => 0,
                                  Prompt => ("/").(quotemeta $prompt).
+("/"),
                                  Output_log => $mydump,
                                  Errmode => 'die',
                                  );
    $telnet->open($host);
    $telnet->login( $user, $passwd );

    return $telnet;
}

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Many Thanks,

Louis

In reply to Telnet Command Prompt Help by cosmicsoup

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