Help with Expect

Rob spamrefuse at yahoo.com
Sun May 22 18:17:07 PDT 2005


Phusion wrote:
> I need some help with an expect script I'm trying
> to write. Here's what I would like to do.
> 
> - Ping the host to see if it's up.
>   a. If the host responds to pings telnet into it.
>   b. If the host doesn't respond to pings write
>      that to a log file and
> close the expect script properly.
> 
> The host does respond to pings. I was thinking if
> I see a ttl in the response packet to assume it's
> up and telnet into it. Let me know how I can do
> the following with expect. Also, how do I close
> an expect script properly? Thanks.

I'm not an expect expert. I used it only once.
Maybe that 'man autoexpect' could help you out.
Autoexpect accepts a sequence of commands and
wraps it in an expect script.

Regards,
Rob.

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