Hi folks, I'm exploring the Net::Telnet module, and am getting a "tset: unknown terminal type network" error. Here's my test script: 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use diagnostics;
use Net::Telnet ();
if ($#ARGV < 2 || $ARGV[0] eq '-h') {
    print "Usage:  telnet1 <systemName> <username> <password>\n";
    exit;
}
my $t = new Net::Telnet->new(Timeout => 10,
			  Input_log => './inputlog.txt',
			  Dump_log => './dumplog.txt');
my ($systemname, $username, $passwd) = @ARGV;
$t->open($systemname);
$t->login($username, $passwd);
my @lines = $t->cmd("/usr/bin/who");
print @lines;
When my perl script does a Telnet::login() to a SuSE Linux machine, it gets the following error (according to my inputlog): 
   tset: unknown terminal type network
   Terminal type?
Apparently during the initial negotiation, Net::Telnet is specifying a terminal type of "network", which SuSE doesn't recognize. Should I talk to the SuSE people and try to convince them to recognize "network"? The SuSE box is at the following Linux version: 
   SuSE Linux SLES-7 (PPC) - Kernel 2.4.13-ppc64-SMP (2)
   > uname -a
   Linux linux10 2.4.13-ppc64-SMP #2 SMP Fri Jul 19 17:14:18 GMT 2002 ppc64 unknown
I'm running on AIX, with the following versions of perl stuff: 
~> perl -mNet::Telnet -e 'print "Net::Telnet.pm version $Net::Telnet::VERSION\n";'
Net::Telnet.pm version 3.02

~> perl -V
Summary of my perl5 (5.0 patchlevel 4 subversion 0) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=aix, osvers=4.1.5.0, archname=aix
    uname='aix side5 1 4 008150374c00 '
    hint=previous, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    bincompat3=y useperlio= d_sfio=
    ( ... etcetera ... )
Suggestions, anyone?

In reply to Net::Telnet "unknown terminal type" by jlee

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