Telnet task in ant

Question

below are my telnet task definition in ant builfile and the output message after runing the task.
<project name="XXX" basedir="." default="telnet">
<target name="telnet" depends="" description="" >
<telnet userid="XXX" password="XXX" server="missrv" >
<write string="cd /home/hfan" />
<write string="mkdir test"/>
</telnet>
</target>
<project>
telnet:
[telnet] SunOS 5.8
[telnet]
[telnet]
[telnet]
[telnet] login:
[telnet] hfan
[telnet] Password:
[telnet] cd /home/hfan
[telnet] mkdir test
BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 1 second
But i can not see any result from the command "mkdir" in the unix box??????
It would be appreciated very much if you can let me know the reason. I have been working with it couple hours.
thx in advance,
Henry

Answer 1

Sorry too.....
I experience the same thing. In addition I am trying to call a bat file on the remote computer that I wrote myself. It does not take any action at all. Inserting a read of known output from the batch file just makes the telnet session hang.
Here is my code:
<telnet userid="db_builder" password="ugly_porche7" server="WOLF" initialCR="false" port="23">
    <write echo="true">SET BUILD_DATABASE=true</write>
    <write echo="true">SET BUILD_DATABASE</write>     
    <write echo="true">"W:\deploy_general\inst\database\simped\test_002\common\installDatabase.bat"></write>
</telnet>The out put is
Buildfile: build.xml
build:
   [telnet] Microsoft (R) Windows (TM) Version 5.00 (Build 2195)
   [telnet] Welcome to Microsoft Telnet Service
   [telnet] Telnet Server Build 5.00.99206.1
   [telnet]
   [telnet] login:
   [telnet] db_builder
   [telnet]  db_builder
   [telnet]
   [telnet] password:
   [telnet] SET BUILD_DATABASE=true
   [telnet] SET BUILD_DATABASE
   [telnet] "W:\deploy_general\inst\database\simped\test_002\common\installDatabase.bat">
BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 0 secondsI would after the second write expect:
"BUILD_DATABASE=true", but inserting <read>true</read> just yields a hanging session.
It's my first try programming or even relate to telnet at all, so I guess I have som general personal trouble with the write/read logic as well. Please help me or point me to something that could clear it up.