[lug] Expect over SSH Problems

[George Sexton]

Well, I figured it out. I think it was a mixture of not waiting for 
"expect eof" to get the buffer, and then the expect matches were hitting 
things to fast. I made one match a little more specific, and it solved 
the issue.

On 2/5/2020 3:51 PM, George Sexton wrote:
> I'm running into some problems executing an expect script over an ssh 
> connection. I have something like:
>
>
> expect <<-EOF
> spawn ssh -e none user at somehost
> expect "~]$ "
> send "somecommand \n"
> ...
> EOF
>
> When I run the command from US host - US host, it works as expected.
>
> When I run the command from US Host -> European Host, the last 4-5 
> commands don't get executed. There are no errors or diagnostics. Of 
> course if I run expect -d it works (heisenberg loves me).
>
> I've tried setting -e none for ssh, quoting and escaping things, and 
> it just doesn't make sense. I moved some things that weren't executed 
> higher, and they run, but things that were executing that are now 
> lower get dropped off. It's kind of like I only get so many lines of 
> operation and it fails.
>
> Does anyone here have any ideas?
>
>
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George Sexton
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