From: Carl Youngblood <cyoungbl@...>
Date: 2001-09-05T02:31:27+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:20880] Re: net/telnet problems

Thanks for your help.  For me (running on Win2k server client), I get the
error repeatedly, and it immediately fails, indicating it is not a timeout
problem.  In fact, changing the timeout value didn't seem to do anything.

Thanks,
Carl

"Anthony Cagle" <acagle@subimo.com> wrote in message
news:IBECKPFNJODELCENPLLIIENMEAAA.acagle@subimo.com...
> Carl,
> I suspect that you need to set Timeout to a larger value than it's default
> (10), eg change line 3 to something like:
>
> tn = Net::Telnet.new({'Host' => 'missaolondrina.org', 'Timeout' => 20) {
> |str| print str }
>
> I could reproduce your problem running the program from a Win98 client
> connecting to a Debian Potato host. However, I noticed it would only fail
> the first time, if I immediately re-ran the client program, then it would
> connect.  That would indicate to me that the telnet daemon is probably
just
> a little slow responding the first time it's invoked.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Anthony
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Carl Youngblood [mailto:cyoungbl@legato.com]
> > Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 6:50 PM
> > To: ruby-talk ML; undisclosed-recipients:
> > Subject: [ruby-talk:20647] net/telnet problems
> >
> >
> > I'm having a problem with the Net::Telnet class.  Any help would
> > be greatly
> > appreciated (I've included line numbers for ease of explanation:
> >
> > 1  require 'net/telnet'
> > 2
> > 3  tn = Net::Telnet.new({'Host' => 'missaolondrina.org'}) { |str| print
> > str }
> > 4  tn.login('missaolo', *** suppressed ***) { |str| print str }
> > 5  tn.cmd('cd bin') { |str| print str }
> > 6  tn.cmd('php -q backup.php') { |str| print str }
> > 7  tn.cmd('exit')
> > 8  tn.close
> >
> > I get this error before line 3 ever finishes:
> >
> > Trying missaolondrina.org...
> > /cygdrive/c/ruby/lib/ruby/1.6/net/telnet.rb:325:in `open': Invalid
> > argument - "c
> > onnect(2)" (Errno::EINVAL)
> >         from /cygdrive/c/ruby/lib/ruby/1.6/net/telnet.rb:325:in
> > `initialize'
> >         from /cygdrive/c/ruby/lib/ruby/1.6/net/telnet.rb:324:in
`timeout'
> >         from /cygdrive/c/ruby/lib/ruby/1.6/net/telnet.rb:324:in
> > `initialize'
> >         from runbackup.rb:3:in `new'
> >         from runbackup.rb:3
> >
> >
> > Does anybody know what I'm doing wrong?  Thanks!
> >
> > Carl Youngblood
> >
> >
> >
>
>