Iam using Net::Telnet to issue some commands to a remote server. I have no problems in connecting to the server and executing the commands. I always get a return status of '1' from the cmd() even if the command fails. How should I check for the return status of the cmd() in Net::Telnet module.

use strict;
use warnings;

my $t = new Net::Telnet (                
               Prompt  => '/.*\d+\s*%>.*$/',
               Timeout => 15, 
              );
  
my ( $hostname, $username, $passwd ) = ( 'xxx', 'xxx', 'xxx' );
  
$t->open($hostname);
$t->login($username, $passwd) or die "Cannot connect to the server";

print "Connected to $hostname as '$username'\n";

# This does not seem to work
#$t->errmode(sub { warn @_ } );
   
my ( @output, $output );

# Change to some directory that is not there

# It gives the output properly with error messages if any
@output = $t->cmd ("/bin/cd not_there");
print  "@output";

# always returns 1
$output = $t->cmd ("/bin/cd not_there");
print $output;
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Update : Can I use echo $? after every command to know the status of the commands. Will Net::Telnet do anything in between the actual command and the echo $? to change $?. Please advise.

Hope Iam clear

-T

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