ok, this may be the cough syrup talking, but i cannot make my Net::Telnet object work for changing passwords. i have reviewed the documentation and while there is an 'example' provided it does not actually implement telnet just a weird way of interfacing with the passwd program and whenever i run my code it leaves behind zombie processes, which is not cool, so does anyone have any idea how to make this code actually work 
$PASSWD = "/bin/passwd";

$telnet->cmd($PASSWD) or report_error("ERROR", "No password prompt fou
+nd, contact Information Technologies: ");
$telnet->waitfor('/password: ?$/i') or report_error("ERROR", "No passw
+ord prompt found, contact Information Technologies: ");
$telnet->print($password);
$telnet->waitfor('/new password: ?$/i') or report_error("ERROR", "No p
+assword prompt found, contact Information Technologies: ");
$telnet->print($new_password);
$telnet->waitfor('/new password: ?$/i') or report_error("ERROR", "No p
+assword prompt found, contact Information Technologies: ");
$telnet->print($new_password);
$telnet->waitfor('/changed/');

.....
sub report_error
{
  #give out std error message and write error to a log file
}

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jcpunk

by the way thanks for all the help that was, is, and will be

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