On Thu, 24 Dec 2009 16:37:14 +0530, Pandurangan R S <pandurangan....@gmail.com> wrote: >> I am using expect command to do auto ssh login > > Expect is not a good choice to do this. > > Instead it is better to use SSH Key authentication. See > http://sial.org/howto/openssh/publickey-auth/ > > You can use empty passphrase (not recommended, but better than using > expect) or use ssh-agent (recommended) to do auto login.
Hello, I am familiar with both and implemented in practical. Still looking the way to solve screen failover script which is doing everything well ; except the failover part. Thanks > > On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 4:02 PM, J. Bakshi <joyd...@infoservices.in> wrote: >> Hello list, >> >> I am using expect command to do auto ssh login. It is working well with >> screen like >> >> ` ` ` >> spawn ssh '$ssh_Server' -t "screen -aUS '$ssh_Server' -dR bash -l" >> expect "*assword:" >> send '$PASSWORD' >> send "\r" >> interact' >> ` ` ` >> All OK. >> >> Now I am trying to do a screen fail over, so that if the remote server >> does not have screen then it will do just ssh login. I have tried with >> >> ` ` ` >> spawn ssh " '$ssh_Server' -t screen -aUS '$ssh_Server' -dR bash -l || >> '$ssh_Server' " >> ` ` ` >> >> and it reports error as >> >> ` ` ` >> send: spawn id exp4 not open >> while executing >> "send testpassword" >> ` ` ` >> >> What might be wrong here ? Any clue ? >> Thanks >> >> -- >> জয়দীপ বক্সী >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> screen-users mailing list >> screen-users@gnu.org >> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users >> _______________________________________________ screen-users mailing list screen-users@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users
