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Sending ls command!

Starting EXPECT pattern matching...
 at /export/dmzsupp/perl5/5.14.2/lib/site_perl/5.14.2/Expect.pm line 561
        Expect::expect('Expect=GLOB(0x65ca28)', 6, 'ARRAY(0x9b6460)', 'ARRAY(0x9b6328)', '-re', 'Regexp=REGEXP(0x9990d8)') called at ./fwlogin.pl line 42
Error,Timeout while waiting 6 secs for ls command on [sol8server] user[user]. Error:1:TIMEOUT

Continuing

$VAR1 = [
          undef,
          '1:TIMEOUT',
          undef,
          '',
          undef,
          undef
        ];

The code:
print "\nSending ls command!\n\n";
$sshFW->send("ls\r");

@exp_stat = $sshFW->expect($expTimeOut,

	# Timeout trap
	[timeout =>
	sub {
		$expFWStatus = 1;
		$expFWmatchString = $sshFW->match;
		print "Error,Timeout while waiting $expTimeOut secs for ls command on [$FWHost] user[$usr]. Error:" . $sshFW->exp_error() . "\n";	
	}
	],
	# EOF trap
	[eof =>
	sub {
		$expFWStatus = 2;
		$expFWmatchString = $sshFW->match;
		print "Error,Premature EOF during ls command for [$FWHost] user[$usr]. Error:" . $sshFW->exp_error() . "\n";
	}
	],

	'-re', qr /% $/, 
	);		# End expect, got Unix prompt ok

print "\nContinuing\n\n";
print Dumper(\@exp_stat);#debug
# The above behaves just like the ls command was never sent!