Dear Perl Monks, I am writing you to seek enlightenment in the realm of Expect.pm

I have a written a perl expect script that runs as expected when I execute it from a terminal or shell.

However, if I execute it using backticks or the system command from a perl cgi script via browser, I receive the error in the subject line: Given filehandle is not a tty in clone_winsize_from. The file handle I am passing to clone_winsize_from is \*STDIN.

I have read online that it could be an issue with the corresponding profile's .bashrc file and it'd be appropriate to make some edits there, however, the default apache2 account that runs does not currently have a .bashrc nor .bash_profile file. It currently runs under www-data.

Has anybody come across something similar to this before? Apologies if I am asking a question that has already been answered.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

code snippet:

use Expect;
my $exp = new Expect;
my $timeout = 30;
$exp->raw_pty(1);
$exp->slave->clone_winsize_from(\*STDIN);

In reply to Given filehandle is not a tty in clone_winsize_from by chackypandy

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