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Old 06-29-2010
Suppressing output of a spawned telnet process
Hi,

I'm trying to spawn a telnet process and trying to do some actions in the remote host using expect script. I would like to know how to suppress all the output in order the user using the script should not be able to see any actions done on the remote host. I tried using the "log_user 0" which only suppresses the output of the spawned process but the actions performed on the remote host is still being displayed.

Thanks,
Arun Venktesh.V
# 2  
Old 06-29-2010
Could you post a small script that reproduces this behavior?
# 3  
Old 06-29-2010
In the below sample code I wanted the action "date" not shown to the user.
Code:
#! /usr/local/bin/expect --

set timeout 120
log_user 0

spawn telnet <hostname>

expect "login: $"
send " username\r"
expect "Password: $"
send "password\r"

expect "<prompt> $"
send "date\r"

expect "<prompt> $"
send "exit\r"

interact

# 4  
Old 06-29-2010
The only output I get is:

Code:
exit
Connection closed by foreign host.

expect version 5.44.1.15
# 5  
Old 06-29-2010
Hi Radoulov,

Are you not getting the output of date command on the terminal ?
# 6  
Old 06-29-2010
No. I'm getting only:

Code:
exit
Connection closed by foreign host.

What OS are you using?
# 7  
Old 06-29-2010
I'm using AIX and this is the output I'm getting

Code:
date
exit
Tue Jun 29 06:45:40 EDT 2010
<Hostname>exit
Connection closed.

Last edited by arun_maffy; 06-29-2010 at 07:46 AM.. Reason: adding script output
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