Date: Sun, 22 May 2005 18:17:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Rob <spamrefuse@yahoo.com> To: phusion2k@gmail.com Cc: FreeBSD questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Help with Expect Message-ID: <20050523011706.73362.qmail@web54001.mail.yahoo.com>
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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. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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