Re^5: Kill sent from perl expect not working

I am running Expect in the verbose mode, so I would expect to see any errors spew on the screen.

Assuming a bourne-ish shell, the error code returned is present in its $? variable. You'll need to output its contents. (To be clear, I don't mean Perl's similar $? variable.)

...Then again, my kill is quite noisy when it fails.

$ kill -INT 21161
bash: kill: (21161) - Operation not permitted

$ echo $?
1
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Re^6: Kill sent from perl expect not working by druidmatrix (Acolyte) on Apr 29, 2010 at 22:22 UTC
Hmmm...this is interesting. I changed my command from simply just the kill to `kill -INT $vpnpid 2>&1` and now it seems to be working.... `Got command prompt: [root@fc10-test perl]# Sending kill commands to ch +ild processes: kill -INT $vpnpid 2>&1 Starting EXPECT pattern matching... at /home/csit/usr/perl/lib/site_perl/5.10.1/Expect.pm line 561 Expect::expect('Expect=GLOB(0x913e698)', 10, '-re', '.*') call +ed at vpn_client.pl line 153 main::sigInt('INT') called at vpn_client.pl line 97 eval {...} called at vpn_client.pl line 97 Return from command: Closing spawn id(4).` [download] I have run it several times, and it seems to work now, but why I cannot tell...	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re^6: Kill sent from perl expect not working
by druidmatrix (Acolyte) on Apr 29, 2010 at 22:22 UTC

Hmmm...this is interesting. I changed my command from simply just the kill to kill -INT $vpnpid 2>&1 and now it seems to be working....

Got command prompt: [root@fc10-test perl]# Sending kill commands to ch
+ild processes:
kill -INT $vpnpid 2>&1
Starting EXPECT pattern matching...
 at /home/csit/usr/perl/lib/site_perl/5.10.1/Expect.pm line 561
        Expect::expect('Expect=GLOB(0x913e698)', 10, '-re', '.*') call
+ed at vpn_client.pl line 153
        main::sigInt('INT') called at vpn_client.pl line 97
        eval {...} called at vpn_client.pl line 97
Return from command:
Closing spawn id(4).
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I have run it several times, and it seems to work now, but why I cannot tell...

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