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[Andrew <afrayedknot AT thefrayedknot.armory.com>]

> #!/usr/bin/expect -f
> spawn rsync --rsh=/usr/bin/ssh -acz --stats
> dkowis AT gambit.gotdns.org:/home/cvsroot /home
> expect "Password:"
> send "\r"

today is your lucky day, i learned expect to make prometheus interact
with cast.

your expect program ends after you send the password, it has nothing else
to do, so it just quits, and if the programs its running arent finished
yet, oh well.

there are two things you could do:

expect eof

which will wait for an end of file, which is normally okay for simple stuff 
that only sends one eof.

The other solution is running

interact

which basically tells expect to 'step back' and let the user handle any
thing else.

"Password:" might work better as "password:", depending on what ssh gives you.
and if all else fails, try autoexpect :)


Hope that helps.

-Andrew

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