I have attached a couple of test programs demonstrating a problem that I have with expect. I type the following: ./expect_script ./testit The result I desire is that the command "sleep 100" is running in the background. However sleep doesn't seem to get run. I can't determine the exact cause of the problem because all methods of tracing it (strace etc) stop it occurring). Putting a "sleep 1" at the end of the testit script will solve the problem, however in the REAL situation that this test is similating I don't get to change the script that is run from expect... -- http://www.coker.com.au/selinux/ My NSA Security Enhanced Linux packages http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page
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testit
Description: application/shellscript
#!/usr/bin/expect eval spawn -noecho $argv interact