Hi Folks I am having problems with a simple expect script. The contents are xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx #!/usr/bin/expect -f set addy devmachine set user devuser set password PASSWORD spawn telnet -l $user $addy expect "user name:" send "$user\r" expect "password:" send "$password\r" (1) interact (2) xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx this works fine. When I want to set up some environment variables and a few other things between (1) and (2), ie [snip] expect "devmachine:" #looking for the command prompt send "resize\r" [snip] the script always logs on ok, then it stalls for about 10 seconds with the message of the day followed by ^[[13;80R after this annoying pause I eventually get the command prompt without any of my commands being run. I have tried putting a sleep 3 between (1) and (2) but it doesnt seem to help. Can someone please suggest how I might fix this. Cheers Tony -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug