Re: Expect-5.32.1 and Hangups when Spawning a Shell

2005-12-15 Thread Martin McCormick
Rob writes: >Ports has now a more recent expect (5.43.0), which I >use That definitely is the better route. This particular system is in use 24/7 by our group and once was a version or two ahead of the FreeBSD that our DNS's and dhcp servers were using. Time and a complete failure of a h

Re: Expect-5.32.1 and Hangups when Spawning a Shell

2005-12-14 Thread Rob
Martin McCormick wrote: > Has anyone seen a condition in FreeBSD4.7 in which > expect-5.32.1 randomly hangs when spawning a shell? > > I got this idea from running autoexpect: > > spawn $env(SHELL) > > Then, I would look for the prompt and begin executing > commands. > >

Expect-5.32.1 and Hangups when Spawning a Shell

2005-12-14 Thread Martin McCormick
Has anyone seen a condition in FreeBSD4.7 in which expect-5.32.1 randomly hangs when spawning a shell? I got this idea from running autoexpect: spawn $env(SHELL) Then, I would look for the prompt and begin executing commands. About every 20 or 30 times, no shell