Hi Monks,

I am using the module Expect.pm to automate tasks by sending commands to a remote host. All these days, expect was behaving normally, but all of a sudden, my programs have started to throw a "Memory fault" error.

When I ran the code in debugging mode, I found out that as soon as I do a

my $sshAuth = Expect->spawn("ssh $User\@$source_DB");
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The program terminates with a Memory fault. I am not sure what's causing the issue. How do I go about figuring out whether:

• It's my Code that is causing the issue
• It's Expect.pm
• It's the machine on which I am running the code
• It's got something to do with the Perl interpreter (gcc perhaps?)

Is there some way I can "trap" this to find the root cause?

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