Did you read this bit in the pod?:

The methods login() and cmd() use the prompt setting in the object to determine when a login or remote command is complete. Those methods will fail with a time-out if you don't set the prompt correctly.

Use a combination of print() and waitfor() as an alternative to login() or cmd() when they don't do what you want.

thanks

yes

my $telnet = new Net::Telnet(Host=>$ip,Timeout=>10,Prompt=>'/ >/', Errmode=>"return");

dump_log snippet show successful log and prompt ' >' then time out and next command

< 0x00050: 20 20 20 20  20 20 20 0d  00 5b 61 64  6d 69 6e 40         ..admin@
< 0x00060: 50 61 75 6c  20 53 70 75  72 6c 6f 63  6b 20 32 31  Paul Spurlock 21
< 0x00070: 32 36 33 5d  20 3e 20                               263 >

> 0x00000: 2f 73 79 73  74 65 6d 20  72 6f 75 74  65 72 62 6f  /system routerbo
> 0x00010: 61 72 64 20  70 72 69 6e  74 0d 0a                  ard print..     

I will try cmd and waitfor next - thanks tip

kp2a:

I just tried it out, and had a similar problem. Using the following code, I tried to connect to a local box:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

use Net::Telnet;

my @lines;
my $t = new Net::Telnet(
        Timeout=>10, Prompt=>'/# $/',
        Dump_Log=>'NetTelnet_x.log'
);
$t->open("192.168.4.190"); 
$t->login("foo", undef);
@lines = $t->cmd("ls");
print @lines;
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It was hanging on the login, as you described. When it finally timed out, I got the message:

timed-out waiting for password prompt at ./NetTelnet_x.pl line 13
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Well, my local box doesn't have a password on the foo account^[1], so it never prompts for password. I just changed the login line to read:

$t->cmd("foo");
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and it started to work. Perhaps you have the same problem? (I notice that you don't quote the error message anywhere, so I can't tell. The one error message you *did* give was a match timeout from when you were playing with regular expressions.)

You might try logging in step by step with the cmd() function and verify that the login process is working as you expect. Then you can fix the login() call if you find a surprise.

...roboticus

Notes:

[1] I don't run Telnet servers (except for the few minutes for this test), so 733t h@X0r2^[1] need not get their hopes up...

[1] Synonym for "script kiddie".

tried $telnet->print and $telnet>waitfor rather that $telnet->login

same results: sucessful login but blocked for timeout seconds

while playing with pompts I got this message which never appeared before as I had always had the correct prompt

This indicates to me that the block until timeout has nothing to do with prompt matching:

error => telnet: 10.100.176.104 pattern match timed-out

kp2a:

You're far too patient. If I had that problem, I would have asked for help about five years ago.... ;^)

...roboticus