I am using the Net::Telnet module to telnet to several boxes in a while loop. The whole idea is to grep some of the processes running there and returning the output.

sometimes one of the boxes doesn't answer for one reason or another and the program dies with the error message "timed-out waiting for login prompt at ..." How do I catch the timeout error and continue looping through the rest of the boxes?

Here's part of the code 

while(<IN>){
    chomp ($num = $_);

    use Net::Telnet (); 
    $t = new Net::Telnet (Timeout => 10,
			  Prompt => '/.*# $/') or warn "timeout\n"; #this doesn't work.
    $t->open("10.0.0.$num") || die "can't telnet to $num\n";
    $t->login('$login','$pwd');

Thanks HeffaK

In reply to Catching timeout for Net::Telnet by HeffaK

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