On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Jay Mallar wrote: >spawn telnet <ip here> >sleep 5 >send "login <name here>" >sleep 5 >send "<pass here>" Look at the docs (man expect) for log_user, and interact >Starting up three xterms isn't a problem, but automating the logins is.. Is there any reason you can't do it the right way and use ssh, with ssh-agent? Cameron Kerr -- cameron.kerr@paradise.net.nz http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/~cameronk/