Re: [Expectperl-discuss] Sending Control Character

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

On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 04:36:46PM -0600, al....@ac... wrote:
> David,
> 
> Thank you for your comment.  I tried that approach before but what I need
> to do is to send a kill signal to a child process,
> that is waiting for input, on the remote server.  I don't know how to find
> the child process id on the remote server so I thought
> trying  by sending something similar to  CTRL+C.  Any comment?
> 

	Seems like it should work. You may also be able to send it
an EOF ("\cd"). Most programs will respond to that also. Something
we do here for routers is explicitly send them "exit\r" to make them
close a connection, since they've been known to get confused otherwise.

	Austin