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Tcpdump on many machines from single script
Hi all, new to the forum and rusty with my scripting. I am trying to put together a quick and dirty script that will kickoff a tcpdump on multiple machines. Then, another script that will reach out (at a later time) to stop the processes and retrieve the data. It seems fairly easy conceptually and will most likely consist of repeating lines with different username@<ip addresses> so I am trying to get just one to work for now.
Digging around the interweb has simply confused me and I could really use some help.

The usernames for the machines all have passwords (sorry, using keys is not an option) so I was looking at using expect like:

Code:
#!/usr/bin/expect -f
spawn ssh <username>@<ip_address> "/usr/sbin/tcpdump -i any -w filename.dump &"
expect "assword:"
send "<password>\r"

... then repeat for another server, leaving tcpdump running on each box when I'm done

Obviously, this does not work or I wouldn't be here. In this case, the script runs but when I look on the server, tcpdump is not running. I had tried using "interact" after the password and removing the & but that just left my script hanging and not moving on to kickoff the next tcpdump.

Any suggestions/corrections would be appreciated
 
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NAME

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SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

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OPTIONS

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