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Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2002 18:26:54 -0400
From: "Arthur Taylor" <Arthur DOT Taylor AT noaa DOT gov>
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Subject: Expect and ssh
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Someone had a similar issue to this in May...  But I didn't see any
follow up...

I was attempting to have an expect script control an ssh session.  It
didn't appear to be working from a bash shell (kept timing out, ?because
it didn't see the string it was expecting on stdin?), so I ssh'd into a
different machine, and the expect script suddenly worked fine.  I then
ssh'd into my own machine and the expect script again worked fine.  For
some reason I can't run the expect script from the bash shell, unless I
have already ssh'd into the local host.  Seems very odd, so I thought I
would see if anyone had an idea.

Arthur

Sample expect script:

---------------------

#! /usr/bin/expect -f

spawn /usr/bin/ssh <name>@<host>
expect "password:"
send "<password>\r"
expect ">"
send "ls -l\r"
expect ">"
send "exit\r"
exit


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