I'm having trouble capturing errors from Net::Telnet as I would expect to. In the following code snippet, I would have thought that I would have gotten a warning 'ugh' from the cmd method, but I had no such luck. Next I would have thought for sure the error message would have been returned by the errmsg method, again no joy. The only way I see the error is if I examine what the cmd method returned to @p. 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Net::Telnet;

my $user = 'foo';
my $passwd = 'bar';

my $t= new Net::Telnet(Host     =>   '****.****.com',
                       Errmode  =>   "return");

$t->login($user, $passwd);
print $t->errmsg, " login\n";

my @p=$t->cmd("dwho") or warn "ugh\n";
print $t->errmsg, " who\n";

print "\@p contains:\n", join("\n", @p),"End\n";

__END__
 login
 who
@p contains:
sh: dwho:  not found.
End

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Regardless of how I mangle the cmd, I still cannot get the errmsg method to return any error. In my actual code I,m not really concerned that the command will fail as in my example but it's quite possible that a file could be missing.

Any Ideas???

TIA

Sweetblood

In reply to Net::Telnet error trapping by sweetblood

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