All,

I'm new to using Perl's Expect module so maybe I'm going about this the wrong way. Basically, with the code below i'm trying to login, run a script and exit. But, because the 1st thing that is returned from a telnet is "Trying aaa.bb.ccc.ddd ... " and my script gets stuck in a endless loop. Any pointers ? 

use strict;
use warnings;

use Expect;
$Expect::Exp_Internal = 1;

my $my_login = "xxx";
my $my_password = "yyy";
my $timeout = "5";

#Spawn a Telnet Process to connect to a build machine.
        my $exp = Expect->spawn("telnet aaa.bb.ccc.ddd")
                  or die "Cannot Spawn Telnet...exiting\n";


#Send user name a password.
        $exp->expect($timeout,
            [ qr/^login:\s+$/i, sub { my $self = shift;
                                  $self->send("$my_login\n");
                                  exp_continue; } ],

            [ qr/^password:\s+$/i, sub { my $self = shift;
                                  $self->send("$my_password\n");
                                  exp_continue; } ],

           # [ qr/.*/i, sub { my $self = shift;
           #                      $self->send("/sean/test.pl\n");
           #              i      exp_continue; } ],

            [ qr/^COMPLETE.*$/i, sub { my $self = shift;
                                    $self->send("exit\n");
                                    exit; } ],

            [ qr/.*/i, sub { my $self = shift;
                                   exp_continue; } ],

              );

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In reply to Need some pointers using Expect.pm by TASdvlper

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