Hi, I have a question on Telnet sessions. I am in a situation where I need to parse the output of commands that are simlar to reboot(linux). Outputs that look similar to the below:

#<some command>

Broadcast message from root Thu Jun 23 11:05:47 2011...

The system is going down for reboot NOW !!

Currently , I am using Net::Telnet for the sessions.All this time I have been using the waitfor method , looking for the prompt to capture the output. I am not sure if I could use the waitfor() method here as there is no prompt in this case .I am not sure how to capture the output.

Any hints would be really helpful.

In reply to Telnet Session by cjay

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