Hi all; I'm having a problem with Net::Telnet connecting and running a process on a VMS machine. It is the good old "command timed-out" error which is giving me a headache.

On the VMS machine, my process produces output like this: 

%WEATHERFILE-I-OPENFILE, Opening Input File: SYS$Weather_Data:20010301
+.WST
%WEATHERFILE-I-OPENFILE, Opening Input File: SYS$Weather_Data:20010302
+.WST
.
.
.
etc

Here is my perl code:

use strict;
use Net::Telnet;

my $name = 'NAME';
my $passwd = 'PASSWORD';

my $telnet = Net::Telnet->new(
                  Input_Log  => "input.log",
                  Output_Log => "output.log",
                  Host       => "HOST",
                  Timeout    => "20" 
                 );

$telnet->login(Name     => $name,
           Password => $passwd,
           Prompt   => '/HOST/i');

$telnet->cmd("$mycommand");
$telnet->cmd("lo"); #logout
$telnet->close;

exit;

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As I understand it, cmd does not take any action UNLESS it sees the prompt (HOST$ in this case). If it doesn't see the prompt, the timeout call comes into affect. Is this correct?

In order to aviod the timeout, I could just say that I know how long it takes to process each file on the VMS machine and scale this by the number of files I want to process (and use this as the timeout value).

Is there another way of doing this?

Thanks!

Regards,
Stacy.

In reply to Unix - VMS and Net::Telnet by maderman

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