Yes, your suggestions are a great help.

Way back when you suggested SIGHUP to check for a change to a configuration file, I found a nice example at the end of a perl.active-venture.com article.

And your example for the $telnet->getline timeout is good. I know I need to handle a bad network connection or remote system getting rebooted. And I also need to handle my own system getting rebooted, which should be taken care of by making my script a daemon that automatically gets restarted.

Thanks.