perl tester-a.pl Global symbol "$system" requires explicit package name at tester-a.pl line 27. Global symbol "$ssh" requires explicit package name at tester-a.pl line 28. Global symbol "$system" requires explicit package name at tester-a.pl line 30. Execution of tester-a.pl aborted due to compilation errors. #### #!/usr/bin/perl -w use warnings; use strict; use Expect; my $filename = "/var/tmp/expect_script.log"; my $header = "\r\n\r\n======= system =======\r\n"; my $timeout = 60; my @servers = qw( remotehost ); for my $server (@servers) { # do your thing with $server change_password($server); } sub change_password { my $my_header = $header; $my_header =~ s/system/$system/; $ssh->print_log_file($header); my $ssh = Expect->new('ssh amagana@' . $system); $ssh->debug(1); $ssh->log_file("$filename"); $ssh->expect ( $timeout, [ qr/Password:/], [ qr/Are you sure you want to continue connecting \(yes\/no\)?/] );