[Expectperl-discuss] Using a modem from Perl

[Andreas L. H. I. A. <an...@hi...>]

Hi there to all the wizards of Perl!

I am writing a system for controlling the status och our network (using
among other things Net::SNMP). When something doesn=B4t reply as expected=
 I
want the system to send us (admins) a SMS with an errormessage...

Now to the problem:

I am very new to Perl and actually to Unix/Linux in general and I am in n=
eed
of some help.
I have NO idea of how to access the modem to do a dialup to a SMS Server =
and
to send the message. I do know how the message is supposed to look when s=
ent
but I don=B4t know how to communicate with the modem.

I have gotten so far as to guess that IO::ptty could be the right way to
walk, so thats why I am posting here.

If anyone has working sourcecode to initiate the modem and so the dialup =
I
can probably figure out the rest by myself.

Sincerely
Andreas Lidberg