Re: [Expectperl-discuss] Executing perl/expect script in background.

[Roland G. <RGi...@cp...>]

Quoting Alexander Bourov <ab...@en...>:
> I have a strange situation:
> when I try to execute the perl/expect script ( which spawns the
> telnet ) in a background mode, say   abc.pl &
> it hung. The ps shows actually two procecces and i have to use kil -9
> to kill them. Any idea what might be happening?

Looks like somebody is trying to read from its controlling tty, 
probably telnet.  Are you aware of the Net::Telnet package?  Switching 
to that instead of spawning another process is much more efficient and 
simpler and thus may solve your problem.

Hope this helps,

Roland
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