Hello Rob, Thanks for the reply. Yes, I am using Net::Telnet. And I am new to perl, I was not aware if there are other methods to start telnet using perl. I did as you suggested. It worked but not completely as I wanted the output. use Net::Telnet (); $t = new Net::Telnet (Timeout => 10, Prompt => $prompt, Dump_Log => \*STDOUT);
What is this \* used for ? Previoulsy I tried with only STDOUT and it hadn't worked. Basically I am looking for an output that would come as if for example I had used windows telnet to login to some server. In this output, first I see hex output too. Secondly, I don't see the prompt after executing each command. Thirdly, I don't see the output for the commands, like I used 'ls'. And I am using: $t->print("ls"); I am not using cmd as it timeout for some of the commands. So I want to print all the input provided in the script and all the output. Thanks, Hashmat On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 4:57 AM, Rob Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hashmat Khan wrote: > > > > Has anybody used Telnet ? > > > > I want to know, how can we redirect the output to STDOUT instead of > > log file ? (Dump_Log => "dump.txt") > > It's important to tell us exactly what module you're using. Telnet is a > comms > protocol but I don't think you mean that. There is no Perl module called > Telnet > but there are many with Telnet in the name. I assume you're using > Net::Telnet as > it has a Dump_Log parameter to the constructor method, but it would have > been > much better if you'd said so. > > I haven't used the module, but the documentation says that the dump_log > method > will accept an open file handle as well as a file name so > > $object->dump_log(\*STDOUT); > > should work. It should also be OK to put it as a parameter to the > constructor as in > > my $object = Net::Telnet->new(Dump_Log => \*STDOUT); > > if you'd rather do it like that. Give it a try and see. > > HTH, > > Rob >