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How to spawn a session in new window using expectk

Posted by chets (chets), 16 October 2007
HI,
im using expectk to ssh a session, but it spawns it on the terminal on which script is run.
i want to spawn a session in new window every time i do a ssh.
Any idea would be helpful.

i followed one of the example and written a script for ssh it worked.
#!/usr/bin/expectk

proc getfiles {host} {
 log_user 0
 set id [spawn ssh $host]
 expect "Password: "
 exp_send "abcd\n"
 expect "# "
   interact
 }

set hostname "computer name"
entry .host -textvariable hostname

button .do -text go -command {
 getfiles $hostname
  }

pack .host .do  



Posted by admin (Graham Ellis), 16 October 2007
You can use new toplevel widgets to spawn new windows, and put your expect-ed results in there

Posted by chets (chets), 16 October 2007
i tried with toplevel, but failed to get anything in new window.
the output of ls is coming from terminal where this script is run.

toplevel .messpop -width 30c -height 30c

      set timeout 3
      set id [spawn ssh $host]
     set spid [ expect {
              "Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)?" { exp_send "yes\n";exp_continue }
              "Password: " { exp_send "abcd\n";exp_continue }
              "#" { exp_send "ls\n" ; interact }
              timeout { puts " Timed out ";exit }
             } ]
     text .messpop.msg -text $spid
     pack .messpop.msg

pls correct me if anything is wrong with the script.

Posted by chets (chets), 17 October 2007
Actually what i want here is spawning (ssh) two session within a single script.
when my script is run (i.e. when button is clicked) i want two diff windows having saperate session(ssh).
i don't know how to achieve this using expectk, is there some way to do this -> spawning two process with in one script.

Posted by admin (Graham Ellis), 17 October 2007
on 10/17/07 at 05:51:45, chets wrote:
Actually what i want here is spawning (ssh) two session within a single script.


There are about 10 examples at
http://www.wellho.net/resources/T212.html

Posted by chets (chets), 17 October 2007
HI,
got the thing how to spawn ssh in new window, we can use
xterm here.

eg: xterm -e ssh root@hostname
will open new window asking for password.

now i got stucked b/w xterm & expect

when i click button im getting a new window asking for password, but i want to proceed without manually entering password.
i.e. i'll provide password using expect in script but this is not working:

spawn xterm -e ssh $hostname
expect "Password: "
exp_send "abcd\n"
expect "# "
interact

on executing this a new window will open,but it hungs asking for password
i don't know is expect is not working or exp_send is not sending password

can anyone help in this, i want to enter without entering password (as i sent it in script itself)

Posted by admin (Graham Ellis), 17 October 2007
Have you tried it with \r rather than \n on the end of the password?  A carriage return rather than a line feed?

Posted by chets (chets), 18 October 2007
Hi Graham,
i tried with \r this time also not working, a window pop up and asks for password.
have one doubt here by executing xterm -e ssh hostname it will pop up new terminal and asks for password.

can we pass password using expect here.
as xterm is new process is it possible i tried with this but didn't work:

      log_user 0
      set timeout 3
      set id [exec xterm -e ssh $host]
      expect -i $id -re "Password: "
      exp_send -i $id "abcd123\r"
      interact

don't know how to pass that password, require help in this pls...

Posted by admin (Graham Ellis), 18 October 2007
You do need spawn rather than exec if you're doing to expect from the id.

If you run with log_user 1, what does that tell you?

Posted by chets (chets), 19 October 2007
Hi Graham,
now also same problem, it hungs and asks for password      

script:
      log_user 1
      set timeout 3
      set id [spawn xterm -e ssh $host]
      expect -i $id -re "Password: "
      exp_send -i $id "abcd1234\r"
      interact

when i run this script in the terminal i observed(as log_user is 1):
[root@d189 tcltk]# ./remote2ssh.tcl
spawn xterm -e ssh 10.0.33.50

i think im missing some thing don't know how to send that password to the new terminal (xterm window)



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