expect telnet issue

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 10/15/07, Vu Pham <vu at sivell.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 11:31 -0700, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> > Greetings folks,
> > I've got a few expect scripts that I'm trying to use to automate
> > telnet logins on some remote power switches.  The expect scripts work
> > perfectly on their own, but I want/need to create a wrapper for them
> > so that they're all unified through a single script.  When I call the
> > expect script via a wrapper bash script, it no longer works.  I get as
> > far as the "spawn telnet foo.com" command, and then it just stalls
> > without ever sending the username/password jazz.
> >
> > I'm guessing that some kind of env variable isn't getting passed
> > somewhere, but I can't figure out what.
> >
> > Anyone have any ideas on what might be going wrong?
>
> Lonnie,
>
> Below is my test script ( I use it for my real ftp, but just tried with
> telnet and it seems working )
>
> #!/usr/bin/expect
> system "date"
> spawn telnet 192.168.249.214
> set timeout 600
> expect {
>         timeout { puts "timed out when spawning telnet"; exit }
>         "connection refused" exit
>         "ogin:"
> }
> send "vu\r"
> expect "ssword:"
> send "mypassword\r\r"
> expect "~]$"
> ## script ends
>
>
> Here is the output when I ran it.
>
> vu at coh2:~/telework/sh-scripts> ./a.sh
> Mon Oct 15 14:11:15 CDT 2007
> spawn telnet 192.168.249.214
> Trying 192.168.249.214...
> Connected to 192.168.249.214.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> Fedora release 7 (Moonshine)
> Kernel 2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 on an i686
> login: vu
> Password:
> Last login: Mon Oct 15 13:50:32 from 192.168.249.28
> [vu at o ~]$
>

Thanks Vu.  What is in your a.sh ?

When I  have just the following, I still get a hang at the telnet
Username prompt:

#!/bin/bash
./cuda-power0.exp


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