[rancid] Re: Custom devices and ttys

[Mark Loveley]

On 10 Oct 2007, at 17:52, David Luyer wrote:
> The approach you tried failed because there is no tty at this point.
> However if you try the exact approach above (wrapping telnet and using
> spawn to call the wrapper) there is a tty.  That's exactly what expect
> does (creates a tty).

Suddenly the light dawns and I see what you are saying. That works  
fine for me.
I'll tidy up my scripts and if anyone is interested send them in.

Thanks for your help.

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