You are not persisting an object and associated states.

You end up creating two completely separate Expect objects.

You should create a cisco::new() method that creates an object (see 'perldoc perltoot') - this method should look something like this: 

sub new{
  my ($class, $logname) = @_;
  $logname or die "NO log file name specified";
  my $self = bless {}, $class; # Creating an empty instance
  $self->{EXP} = Expect::->new(); # Now has an EXP attribute
  open   $self->{LOGFH}, ">>", $logname or die "Could not append to $l
+ogname : $!";
  return $self;
}

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Once you get an object back from new(), you need to call login_auth like this: 
  my $cisco = cisco::->new();
  $cisco->login_auth();

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Of course, you will need to modify login_auth() to accept a parameter, preferably named $self.

Update: Added LOG to new() method.

So happy journey into the world of OO programming!

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