Hello fellow penguins!

This is my first post on the forums and it's all because my research is failing me (I do actually research prior to asking for peoples help).

Let me start by stating my Problem, and my solution that I can't figure out how to put in action.

Problem: Remote PDU logins sometimes get stuck when users don't properly log out.

Solution: telnet into remote PDU using Username/Password and selecting option 4 to log out (this clears any hung state)

I wrote a script to do so-
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#!/usr/bin/expect -f
spawn telnet x.x.x.x
expect -re "User Name"
send "USERNAME\r"
expect -re "Password"
send "PASSWORD\r"
expect -re "4- Logout"
send "4\r"
sleep 3
send "exit\r"
expect eof
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Now here's what I need to happen.

I have a text file that's CSV:
"acctPDUID","acctID","rackPDU","username","password","ip","type"
5,3686,"1J6-East","USER","PASSWORD","x.x.x.x","APC"
7,3878,"1L17","USER","PASSWORD","x.x.x.x","APC"
11,4108,"1M24","USER",PASSWORD","x.x.x.x","APC"
13,3795,"1L10","USER","PASSWORD","x.x.x.x","APC"

How can I incorporate the CSV into my Telnet login script?

Basically only need telnet to connect to x.x.x.x with USER / PASSWORD then input the option 4


Thanks in advance! If you need any questions clarified let me know!!

Nobody can help me on this? Really?

I honestly expected at least someone to have an idea on this. I guess it's on to the next forum...

Heard good things about LQ too.. odd..

This is a forum of volunteers. Bumping your thread twice within three hours is considered rude since it implicates that you demand priority attention. We will help when we find the time and interest to help and not when you demand it.
By bumping your own thread you also took it off the zero reply list. As long as a thread is on the zero reply list it will get bumped automatically. By responding to your own thread after only one hour you have deactivated this mechanism for this thread.
Probably from people who were patient enough to actually wait for a response. There is nothing odd about that, just common netiquette.

I guess my urgency resulted from seeing 100+ views on the topic and not one response. Sorry if it offended you admin...

I got my answer within 15minutes from LinuxForums so all is well.

Good day!