in reply to Expect problems

If you're unsure whether either your script or the remote server are saying what you think they should be saying, you could set up a proxy and watch the network transaction as it takes place. A very handy tool for that is socat, execute:

socat -v tcp4-listen:4242 tcp4:remote.server.com:23

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and point your script at port 4242 on your local host. This should show you what is going on.


Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it. -- Brian W. Kernighan

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