I'm guessing that it's too late for an answer, and this might not be a good one, but here you go...

What about putting it inside of a while loop with a timer on it of some sort. I'm more of a Perl guy than Solaris, but depending on the shell you're using, you should be able to do something like:

TIME = 'date +%s' + 15 while TIME != `date +%s' do whatever

And then just add a flag in the while loop, so that if it times out before completing, you can cite the timeout as reason for failure.

I suspect that the telnet has a timeout switch as well, but just off the top of my head, I think the above will work.

I'm guessing that it's too late for an answer, and this might not be a good one, but here you go...

What about putting it inside of a while loop with a timer on it of some sort. I'm more of a Perl guy than Solaris, but depending on the shell you're using, you should be able to do something like:

TIME = 'date +%s' + 15
while TIME != `date +%s'
do whatever

And then just add a flag in the while loop, so that if it times out before completing, you can cite the timeout as reason for failure.

I suspect that the telnet has a timeout switch as well, but just off the top of my head, I think the above will work.