Telnet Problem

[Eddie Corns]

"DeepBleu" <DeepBleu at DeepBleu.org> writes:

>I am running into the following frustration problem:
>I am telneting a server to run a command on it.  When I run the script in
>interactive mode (line by line in PythonWin 2.1.211), it works.  When I run
>the script, it does not work.
>This is the very simple script:
>######################### Start
>from telnetlib import Telnet
>tn=Telnet("dvlp")
>tn.read_until("login: ")
>tn.write("UserID\n")
>tn.read_until("Password: ")
>tn.write("UserPWD\n")
>tn.read_until("data>")
>tn.write("cd ..\n")
>tn.read_until("server>")
>tn.write("cd bin\n")
>tn.read_until("bin>")
>tn.write('newjob "par1" "PathToFile" "PythonWin Test"' + "\n")
>tn.close()
>################################################## End
>As I said, when I run it line by line,  the process 'newjob "par1"
>"PAthToFile" "PythonWin Test"'  takes place fine.  When run in the regular
>way as a script,  the same process does not take place.
>Can anyone help with any hints.
>Thanks,
>DeepBleu

Try doing a read_until() after the final write and before the close().  What's
probably happening is that the connection close is causing the far end to
terminate the session.

Eddie