From: "Eric T." Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby Subject: Telnet "More?" Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2011 02:10:54 -0500 Organization: Service de news de lacave.net Lines: 61 Message-ID: <0bc1be8ec871e5fbad7753c695247ddc@ruby-forum.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: bristol.highgroove.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: talisker.lacave.net 1303024274 68379 65.111.164.187 (17 Apr 2011 07:11:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@lacave.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2011 07:11:14 +0000 (UTC) X-Received-From: This message has been automatically forwarded from the ruby-talk mailing list by a gateway at comp.lang.ruby. If it is SPAM, it did not originate at comp.lang.ruby. Please report the original sender, and not us. Thanks! For more details about this gateway, please visit: http://blog.grayproductions.net/categories/the_gateway X-Mail-Count: 381742 X-Ml-Name: ruby-talk X-Rubymirror: Yes X-Ruby-Talk: <0bc1be8ec871e5fbad7753c695247ddc@ruby-forum.com> Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.dougwise.org!feed.ac-versailles.fr!talisker.lacave.net!lacave.net!not-for-mail Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.ruby:3055 I'm trying to use the telnet library. I don't know Ruby AT ALL (evaluating it side by side with Python to see which is going to be best for my admin chores; this is my very first script), and this has got me stumped: require 'net/telnet' t = Net::Telnet::new( 'Host' => 'somehost.com', 'Prompt' => /:.*>/, ) out = lambda do |c| print c end t.login('someusername', 'somepassword', &out) t.cmd('dir', &out) t.cmd('dir', &out) The second dir command hangs with the server responding "More?" Here's the tail end of the output log, after the first dir command: ... 04/13/2011 04:21 PM Searches 04/13/2011 04:21 PM Videos 04/16/2011 12:54 AM 6,558 _viminfo 1 File(s) 6,558 bytes 13 Dir(s) 279,022,981,120 bytes free C:\Users\foo>dir More? And it just hangs there. Full logs here (names changed to protect the innocent): http://tetzfiles.com/temp/output_log http://tetzfiles.com/temp/dump_log This is a bitch to Google ("?" is ignored), but I found someone else asking the same question on Stackoverflow, but he got no response (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3450942/ruby-telnet-lib-weird-response). You guys could help both of us out. :) ------------------------------------------------------------------ In a slightly unrelated question, I don't understand why I have to do this: out = lambda do |c| print c end t.login('someusername', 'somepassword', &out) t.cmd('dir', &out) t.cmd('dir', &out) Rather than simply this: t.login('someusername', 'somepassword', &print) t.cmd('dir', &print) t.cmd('dir', &print) Seems kinda pointless to make a function which does nothing but pass it's arguments unaltered to another function. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.