[olug] Expect script help...

[Jay Hannah]

Can you show us what success looks like when you run through the entire 
process manually?

j


On Aug 26, 2004, at 11:53 AM, Daniel Linder wrote:
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> Guy,
>
>   Slightly off-topic but I figgured what the heck. :)
>
> I am trying to automate login to a remote Unix system.  I have this
> working when my laptop telnets directly to the remote system and the
> expect script then ran a script on the remote server to set the 
> $DISPLAY
> variable.
>
> The situation has changed and I now have to shell into an intermediate
> unix system, then run "PowerBroker" to connect in to the final 
> location.
> When my script runs on the remote system now, it can only get the IP
> address of the intermediate "PowerBroker" system but not my true
> workstation.
>
> Can some expect or Tcl guru give me some quick pointers to parse the
> command output in the expect script to parse out my workstations IP
> address so I can send it to a remote system?
>
> Here is a snippet of my expect code:
>
>   #!/usr/bin/expect
>   #
>   # Code to login to the first machine would be here...
>   #
>   send "who am i\n";
>   # This returns:
>   # linderd     pts/2     Aug 26 10:32   (10.120.15.88)
>   set MYDISPLAY <what goes here?>
>   #
>   # Code to login to the second machine would be here...
>   #
>   # Now set my workstation DISPLAY variable...
>   send "DISPLAY=[ $DISPLAY ]:0.0\n";
>
> Thanks!
>
> Dan