Hi,

I'm pretty new to perl. I've written a small sample code which restarts my smtp service. The issue with the below code is, it after it runs /root/scripts/restart.sh on smailhostqa, the control doesn't comes back to Perl. I have to do ctrl-c to exit the script. Since I will be running this from the cron job, I would like to proper exit the script instead of hanging after the command. I thought $ssh->close(); should have closed the ssh session but it didn't.

My question is:

Your help is greatly appreciated. 

#! /usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use Net::SSH::Expect;

# Restarting the service....
                my $ssh = Net::SSH::Expect->new (
                host => "smailhostqa",
                user => 'root',
                raw_pty => 1
                );
               $ssh->run_ssh() or die "SSH process couldn't start: $!"
+;
               $ssh->send("/root/scripts/restart.sh");
               print "foo";
               $ssh->waitfor('[root\@\w+ ~]#');
               $ssh->close();

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In reply to Perl - running remote script doesn't return back the control to perl. by bshah

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