Re: [Expectperl-discuss] Problem running in bg

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

On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 09:23:20AM -0700, ex...@ih... wrote:
> > 
> > print STDERR "launching\n";
> > my $exp = Expect->new();
> > $exp->spawn("/sbin/sh");
> > print STDERR "launched\n";

> > % ./test.pl
> > launching
> > launched
> > 
> > % ./test.pl &
> > [3] 4179
> > % launching
> > [3]  + Suspended (tty output) ./test.pl
> > 

	Have you tried reading from the tty to see if that wakes sh up?
i.e.:

$exp->spawn("/sbin/sh");
$exp->expect(undef,'$ ');
print STDERR "launched\n";

	Austin