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sspitz01 Novice Jun 7, 2009, 6:54 PM Post #1 of 10 (2130 views) Expect issues with exp_before Can't Post I am having issues with the expect module. I have a program that telnet's into a UNIX box that passes me into a proprietary system. I then execute a cat like command and wait for the output to finish printing to the screen. I then call EXP_BEFORE and store off the data. This process has worked for me for years but now the EXP_BEFORE is dropping some data. I upgraded to expect 1.21, tried setting raw_pty and the max accumulator, I also make sure I clear the accumulator before. I still get the same issues. This is a random issue with files larger than 100,000 lines. I can repeated the process several times and get the data correctly, but the system is slow and this file can take up to 2 hours or more to cat. Just an FYI I cannot FTP the data off due to system limitations on the box. I am running this on a HP box with 16 processors and lots of memory so I do not think that the box is the issue. Thanks for your help.

1arryb User Jun 8, 2009, 7:31 AM Post #2 of 10 (2117 views) Re: [sspitz01] Expect issues with exp_before [In reply to] Can't Post Hi sspitz, You might get better results if you try grabbing the file in chunks and stitching them together. One method might be to build an expect loop around the less command, instead of trying to cat all 100k lines at a time. Cheers, Larry

sspitz01 Novice Jun 8, 2009, 10:35 AM Post #3 of 10 (2112 views) Re: [1arryb] Expect issues with exp_before [In reply to] Can't Post Unfortunately I cannot control the far end system like that (it is a proprietary system and does not support this). All I can do is a full dump with no control. Is it possible in expect to call exp_before then clear_accum and keep looping this until the file is done or will I loss parts of the file?

1arryb User Jun 8, 2009, 10:39 AM Post #4 of 10 (2110 views) Re: [sspitz01] Expect issues with exp_before [In reply to] Can't Post sspitz, No idea. Is it possible to get the byte count of the remote file? From your post, it seems like the dropouts are intermittent. If you know how big the file is, you can keep trying until you get it all. Kinda sucks, but then, this whole interface sounds like a "it's a miracle it works at all" lashup. Larry

sspitz01 Novice Jun 8, 2009, 11:02 AM Post #5 of 10 (2108 views) Re: [1arryb] Expect issues with exp_before [In reply to] Can't Post No I cannot get a bit count but I do know when the files are right or not. The system displays a line count. I do not want to go back and try again because the time it takes to dump the file. That is what I am doing now. I also know that the far end system is not at fault. When I turn on logging I see the whole file in STD out without errors. I would hate to pipe STD out to a file and parse it from there.

1arryb User Jun 8, 2009, 11:13 AM Post #6 of 10 (2106 views) Re: [sspitz01] Expect issues with exp_before [In reply to] Can't Post Hi sspitz, Do you know if the telnetd on your remote system supports any of x/y/z/modem or kermit? Larry

sspitz01 Novice Jun 8, 2009, 11:16 AM Post #7 of 10 (2105 views) Re: [1arryb] Expect issues with exp_before [In reply to] Can't Post I know it supports Z. the others I would have to pull out the documentation. Sean

1arryb User Jun 8, 2009, 11:32 AM Post #8 of 10 (2104 views) Re: [sspitz01] Expect issues with exp_before [In reply to] Can't Post sspitz, If you can figure out how to transfer the file using one of the serial xfer protocols in an interactive telnet session, then you can probably script it. Any of these is likely to give you a better result than simply cat'ing the file to the session. Larry

sspitz01 Novice Jun 9, 2009, 11:20 AM Post #9 of 10 (2093 views) Re: [1arryb] Expect issues with exp_before [In reply to] Can't Post I figured out how to fix but still do not understand why??? oh well it works. I converted from telnet to SSH! I would think that the same error checking at the TCP packet level would be the same??? Thanks for all your help.

1arryb User Jun 9, 2009, 11:35 AM Post #10 of 10 (2091 views) Re: [sspitz01] Expect issues with exp_before [In reply to] Can't Post sspitz, Congrats! You may have been overrunning a buffer in Net::Telnet/expect, not the network transfer. Telnet isn't really designed to do what you were attempting. Larry

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