So I reviewed the other thread and looked at FAQ. I am using Data Dumper now, still no luck. I wrote a smaller program to ssh to another unix server and I get the same issue, right after i send the user password for login (that works ok, I get my login completed), I cannot send or expect anything else after that procedure completes. Right after the login procedure completes, i try to send a ls command and expect - all i get is timeout: 
screen shot:
Sending ls command!

Starting EXPECT pattern matching...
 at /export/dmzsupp/perl5/5.14.2/lib/site_perl/5.14.2/Expect.pm line 5
+61
        Expect::expect('Expect=GLOB(0x65ca28)', 6, 'ARRAY(0x9b6460)', 
+'ARRAY(0x9b6328)', '-re', 'Regexp=REGEXP(0x9990d8)') called at ./fwlo
+gin.pl line 42
Error,Timeout while waiting 6 secs for ls command on [sol8server] user
+[user]. Error:1:TIMEOUT

Continuing

$VAR1 = [
          undef,
          '1:TIMEOUT',
          undef,
          '',
          undef,
          undef
        ];

The code:
print "\nSending ls command!\n\n";
$sshFW->send("ls\r");

@exp_stat = $sshFW->expect($expTimeOut,

    # Timeout trap
    [timeout =>
    sub {
        $expFWStatus = 1;
        $expFWmatchString = $sshFW->match;
        print "Error,Timeout while waiting $expTimeOut secs for ls com
+mand on [$FWHost] user[$usr]. Error:" . $sshFW->exp_error() . "\n";  
+  
    }
    ],
    # EOF trap
    [eof =>
    sub {
        $expFWStatus = 2;
        $expFWmatchString = $sshFW->match;
        print "Error,Premature EOF during ls command for [$FWHost] use
+r[$usr]. Error:" . $sshFW->exp_error() . "\n";
    }
    ],

    '-re', qr /% $/, 
    );        # End expect, got Unix prompt ok

print "\nContinuing\n\n";
print Dumper(\@exp_stat);#debug
# The above behaves just like the ls command was never sent!

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In reply to Re^2: Issue with Expect by azstyx
in thread Issue with Expect by azstyx

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