I believe you have misdiagnosed your problem. Your most likely problem is that you are issuing a directory name as a command expecting to move to that directory, and you're not seeing that the telnet session is complaining that that is a directory, not a file.

Try modifying your commands to things like $code->cmd('cd /log'); and see if your problems go away. If they don't then I highly recommend trying to echo the results of the telnet session to screen while you're trying to debug it.

I would also suggest that you try to add in some error handling logic if you're getting responses other than what you're expecting. Be warned that error handling logic is notoriously hard to add when manipulating programs remotely like this, and that is likely to be a source of future problems. But at least by trying to add some checks now you can ease many of your future headaches.

In reply to Re: Telnet extract output by tilly
in thread Telnet extract output by ScOut3R

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