From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 15 14:29:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA18333 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 15 Jan 1998 14:29:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pericles.aipo.gov.au (pericles.aipo.gov.au [202.14.186.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA18176 for ; Thu, 15 Jan 1998 14:28:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Stanley.Hopcroft@aipo.gov.au) From: Stanley.Hopcroft@aipo.gov.au Received: (from smap@localhost) by pericles.aipo.gov.au (8.8.5/8.6.12) id JAA17159 for ; Fri, 16 Jan 1998 09:28:08 +1100 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: pericles.aipo.gov.au: smap set sender to using -f Received: from notes.aipo.gov.au(192.3.1.11) by pericles.aipo.gov.au via smap (V2.0) id xmaa17153; Fri, 16 Jan 98 09:28:06 +1100 Received: by notes.aipo.gov.au(Lotus SMTP MTA v1.05b4 (287.3 12-16-1996)) id 4A25658D.0080AB90 ; Fri, 16 Jan 1998 09:25:25 +1000 X-Lotus-FromDomain: INTERNET To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: <4A25658D.0080A898.00@notes.aipo.gov.au> Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 07:35:39 +1000 Subject: Expect 5.22 on FreeBSD. Problems with disconnecting Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, I am writing to ask for help with a small Expect problem. I have a logging application that would with Expect 5.19/tcl 7.2 and FreeBSD 2.1.0, happily disconnect from the controlling tty and log call complete/call clear messages from an X25 switch to a file. The application forks to create the monitoring child and then the parent exits. Unfortunately when the parent exits so does the child. The program was working after fetching & making Expect 5.19 and tcl 7.2. With newer FreeBSDs I have used the packages and it hasn't worked. The host has always had FreeBSD upgraded rather than re-installed I will be very grateful for any suggestions, Yours sincerely.