John MacLerran writes:
>
> Hi Listers,
>
> I'm trying to automate a Telnet login from an MPE/iX session, doing
> something like this:
>
> telnet  < myfile
>
> Where myfile contains:
>     open somehost.somewhere.org
>     username
>     password
>     ls -l
>     other unix commands...
>     exit
>
> When I do the above, it doesn't work. It stops at the login: prompt on
> the remote host. I also can't put the equivalent of the above file in a
> job, because Telnet complains that it can't be run from a job (that may
> be the way we have our program capabilities set up -- I'll have to talk
> to our sys mgr about that). However, it would be preferable to do it
> from a command file in a session.
>
> Can anyone enlighten me as to how I could do this?

HP's REMSH.NET.SYS (aka /usr/bin/remsh) might be useful to you.

If you need more interactivity, you might be able to do it with Perl/iX and
Net::Telnet.  Perl/iX is available from:

        http://www.cccd.edu/~markb/perlix.html

Net::Telnet is available from CPAN.  The documentation is at:

        http://www.perl.com/CPAN-local/authors/id/JROGERS/Net-Telnet-3.01.readme

The example program looks like what you're trying to do:

    Here's an example that prints who's logged-on to the remote host
    sparky.  In addition to a username and password, you must also
    know the user's shell prompt, which for this example is bash$

        use Net::Telnet ();
        $t = new Net::Telnet (Timeout => 10,
                              Prompt => '/bash\$ $/');
        $t->open("sparky");
        $t->login($username, $passwd);
        @lines = $t->cmd("/usr/bin/who");
        print @lines;
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