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expect.pm question
I am trying to get a cgi script to interact with a remote server. The script logs into the server, runs a command, and prints the output of the command to a webpage. At least it's supposed to.. I am using the expect module to log into the remote system via ssh, my problem is that when I log in... -
stopping a command within a script?
I'm new to perl, I'm trying to create a script that will capture tcpdump data into a specified file. So far i've been able to run the command just fine, however i don't know how to stop the process after a certain period of time. Say I want to capture 30 seconds of tcpdump data, how do I stop...
