Hi,

I had been using Net::SSH::Perl successfully. The problem came when I needed to run some interactive programs on the remote servers and needed Expect to interact with them. Since Expect can either spawn a new program or work with an open filehandle, I thought I'd find a way to open a SSH or Telnet connection to a server, do the login work then let Expect takeover when an interactive script had to be executed on the remote side.

I'm thinking what I could do is spawn SSH directly from Expect. The thing is I don't *always* need to run interactive scripts on the remote side, hence why I don't *always* need to use Expect. This is why I thought it would be neater to have Net::Telnet open the Telnet or SSH connection (depending on server) then run Expect when I need to.

I'm open to suggestions, if you have another way in mind of how I can achieve this (preferably non-hackish way as the idea is that the code is maintainable afterwards)

In reply to Re^2: IO::Pty, Net::Telnet and SSH by gonza
in thread IO::Pty, Net::Telnet and SSH [SOLVED] by gonza

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