Re: [Expectperl-discuss] Can I use expectperl from a sub-process?

[Austin S. <te...@of...>]

> 
> But for an ssh or Kerberized telnet session, that won't work - telnet or
> ssh has to stay running to encrypt/decrypt the data - the only way to
> talk to the remote router is via the pty of ssh/telnet.  I could have
> the perl/expect program start ssh/telnet, but my program is meant to be
> a tool that you run multiple times against the router, so I want the ssh/
> telnet to persist.
> 
> > 	Another way is to have an expect script that does interact() at
> > some point and uses named pipes as i/o. I think that's how things like
> > kibitz work. Performance-wise it's less efficient, but probably easier to
> > code.
> 
> Easy to code, I like that :-).  I had earlier tried using ksh93,
> which has a built-in for doing this - when you
> start a process and background it with "|&" instead of "&", you
> end up with two pipes (meant for use with ksh's "read -p" and "print -p"
> commands).  I suppose I can try hooking one of the pipes to the Expect
> object, and teaching my script to send the output data for the telnet/ssh
> session to the other?

	Something like that would probably be my approach.

	Austin