Hi,

I am using Expect module of perl on UNIX. When I run the script, all the details are displayed on the console. Instead, I would like to have all the details displayed on the console to be logged into a log file.

I tried using 

    $exp->debug(1);
    $exp->log_file("server_install_log.txt", "w");

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but, still the details are displayed on the console. The log file contains what was returned from previous send and what text was sent.

Could anyone please let me know how to acheive this? I just would like to have a clean console [or minimum details on console] and any other detail to be logged in a log file.

Any help is much appreciated.

Thanks

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