[HPADM] Trouble Using Expect to Telnet from HP-UX 11.00 to Windows

From: Dave T. (davidlt77@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed Oct 15 2003 - 13:43:03 EDT


I'm hoping someone on the HP-UX list has enough experience with expect to
point me in the correct direction. I wrote an expect script to do the
following:

1. Telnet from HP-UX 11.00 to Windows.
2. Execute a script on the Windows server and exit.

I posted the following on a newsgroup for expect, and I didn't get any
responses:

I've written the expect script below:

#!/usr/local/bin/expect -b

exp_internal 1

set timeout 10

spawn telnet server 1023
expect "login: "
send ""
expect "telnet> "
send "mode character\r\r"
expect "login: "
send "krservice\r"
expect "password: "
send "abcdefg\r"
expect "D:\RemoteScript>"
send "stopapp.bat\r"
wait
expect "D:\RemoteScript>"
send "exit\r"

exit

This script produces the following:

spawn telnet server 1023
parent: waiting for sync byte
parent: telling child to go ahead
parent: now unsynchronized from child
spawn: returns {27301}

expect: does "" (spawn_id exp5) match glob pattern "login: "? no
Trying...

expect: does "Trying...\r\n" (spawn_id exp5) match glob pattern
"login: "? no
Connected to server.
Escape character is '^]'.

expect: does "Trying...\r\nConnected to server.\r\nEscape character is
'^]'.\r\n" (spawn_id exp5) match glob pattern "login: "? no
Microsoft (R) Windows (TM) Version 5.00 (Build 2195)
Welcome to Microsoft Telnet Service
Telnet Server Build 5.00.992
expect: does "Trying...\r\nConnected to server.\r\nEscape character is
'^]'.\r\nMicrosoft (R) Windows (TM) Version 5.00 (Build
2195)\r\r\nWelcome to Microsoft Telnet Service \r\r\nTelnet Server
Build 5.00.992" (spawn_id exp5) match glob pattern "login: "? no
06.1
login:
expect: does "Trying...\r\nConnected to server.\r\nEscape character is
'^]'.\r\nMicrosoft (R) Windows (TM) Version 5.00 (Build
2195)\r\r\nWelcome to Microsoft Telnet Service \r\r\nTelnet Server
Build 5.00.99206.1\r\n\rlogin: " (spawn_id exp5) match glob pattern
"login: "? yes
expect: set expect_out(0,string) "login: "
expect: set expect_out(spawn_id) "exp5"
expect: set expect_out(buffer) "Trying...\r\nConnected to
server.\r\nEscape character is '^]'.\r\nMicrosoft (R) Windows (TM)
Version 5.00 (Build 2195)\r\r\nWelcome to Microsoft Telnet Service
\r\r\nTelnet Server Build 5.00.99206.1\r\n\rlogin: "
send: sending "\u001d" to { exp5 }

expect: does "" (spawn_id exp5) match glob pattern "telnet> "? no

expect: does "\n" (spawn_id exp5) match glob pattern "telnet> "? no
telnet>
expect: does "\ntelnet> " (spawn_id exp5) match glob pattern "telnet>
"? yes
expect: set expect_out(0,string) "telnet> "
expect: set expect_out(spawn_id) "exp5"
expect: set expect_out(buffer) "\ntelnet> "
send: sending "mode character\r\r" to { exp5 }

expect: does "" (spawn_id exp5) match glob pattern "login: "? no
mode character

expect: does "mode character\r\n\r\n" (spawn_id exp5) match glob
pattern "login: "? no
expect: timed out
send: sending "krservice\r" to { exp5 }

expect: does "mode character\r\n\r\n" (spawn_id exp5) match glob
pattern "password: "? no
ioctl error on TIOCREQCHECK: invalid argument
    while executing
"expect "password: "
"

Obviously, the script isn't working. What am I doing wrong?

Also, if anyone has a working autoexpect script on HP-UX, please send it to
me. The one I have doesn't work.

Thnx,

Dave

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