Shell Programming and Scripting

I am trying to use telnet in shell script but getting following error

error
Connected to crmapp00.agf.ca.
Escape character is '^]'.
Connection closed by foreign host.

Script
#!/bin/ksh
PATH=/usr/sbin/:/usr/bin:/usr/ucb:/etc:/usr/local/bin:.
telnet HOSTNAME <<SCRIPT
user userid password
SCRIPT
exit

i think i am doing something wrong in this area
user userid password

Actually i have tried different way too but didn't work it prompt me for userid and password.
#!/bin/ksh
PATH=/usr/sbin/:/usr/bin:/usr/ucb:/etc:/usr/local/bin:.
telnet HOSTNAME
user userid password
exit

I'll really appreciate if someone can help me...

Thanks in Advance.

You cannot use a here document with telnet.

If this task really must be done with telnet it could best be done with expect, otherwise use a login method which does not need interactive logins such as rsh/rexec or preferably ssh.

I second the above!
Here's the "poor-man's" inline telnet which might not be bullet-proof for all the cases:

Code:

    (
    sleep 3
    print user
    sleep 1
    print password
    sleep 2
    print "ls ~"
    sleep 1
    print "exit"
    sleep 3
    ) | telnet hostname

Thank you so much it worked

this one is working, but it exits the telnet session at the end. i want the script to make a permanant connection to the server so that whenever i want to connect, i can just run the script instead of entering all the credinals.

if you have Perl, you can use the Net::Telnet module. eg here

no, i dont ve pearl. i just want a script that can connect to server using telnet and therafter it should end, but not the connection