Hi ,
I'm using expect to script automatic telnet sessions from a linux to an HP
11.00 box. My script has the usual sort of statements such as:

expect {
            timeout  {sorry "Timed out"}
            *Password:*
}


Okay  - so this is all going okay.
I spawn telnet and send an open $host command - this works fine. Then I send
the UserID and the above code-snip comes into play. What puzzles me is that
(when I use the -d flag)
I can see that the response is " " and expect never matches this so in the
end it timesout. What is happening? What is the" " generated by and how
should I stop
it from interfering with the expect script...?

Thanks

On 2004-06-01, Jon <snakes_boi@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
: I'm using expect to script automatic telnet sessions from a linux to an HP
: 11.00 box. My script has the usual sort of statements such as:
:
: expect {
:             timeout  {sorry "Timed out"}
:             *Password:*
: }
:
: Okay  - so this is all going okay.
: I spawn telnet and send an open $host command - this works fine. Then I send
: the UserID and the above code-snip comes into play. What puzzles me is ...
:
You might want to use kermit instead; it was specifically designed to
automate Telnet connections (among other things).  It's already installed
on your HP-UX system.  For a tutorial see:

  http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ckututor.html

For a scripting tutorial and examples see:

  http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ckscripts.html

For a sample Telnet script, see:

  ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/scripts/ckermit/autotelnet

Ditto, by the way, for FTP:

  http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ftpclient.html
  http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ftpscripts.html

- Frank